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What was the Poll Tax?

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Katya Ruggieri

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5y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual. ... In the United States, voting poll taxes (whose payment was a precondition to voting in an election) have been used to disenfranchise impoverished and minority voters (especially under Reconstruction).

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