Read My Lips: No Poll Taxes
- Congress has found that a poll tax prevents the poor from voting, doesn't have any kind of relevance for checking for voting qualification, and often unfairly targets based on race or color. No poll taxes can be put into place.
- None.
- Because of this, the Attorney General has the authority to get rid of them, and take action against states that have 'em on the books.
- District Courts handling those actions will be heard by a court of three judges, and should be handled as quickly as possible.
- If the courts (somehow) declare the poll tax to be constitutional, then no person can be prevented from voting if they pay the tax to an appropriate state or local official forty-five days before the election, whether or not the poll tax was already due before then.
- Examiners can accept those payments, then send them to the state on the applicant's behalf.