What does the Supreme Court have to say about poll taxes? In a case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, the United States Supreme Court declared that any poll tax was unconstitutional. The nation had already ratified the 24th amendment, which declared citizens' right to vote in federal elections shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. The Harper case involved the poll tax in the state of Virginia. The Supreme Court threw it out. Do you know how much the poll tax was in Virginia when this case was decided? (04:03–04:19)
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Asserts that the 24th Amendment prohibits denying the right to vote due to unpaid poll taxes.
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