Shades of the old poll tax persist in election plans

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Author(s) Dwight Lewis
Source The Tennessean
Date September 17, 2006
URL http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/COLUMNIST0107/609170415/1101/NEWS01
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Quotes-start.png "Call it a modern day poll tax — a tax that was used in the 1950s and 1960s in some parts of the South to keep certain people from voting. It shouldn't have been used then, and it shouldn't be used today." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Federal Election Integrity Act.