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A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
This is a list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.
History of the poll tax by state from 1868 to 1966. Southern states had adopted the poll tax as a requirement for voting as part of a series of laws in the late 19th century intended to exclude black Americans from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment. This required that voting not be limited by "race, color ...
Gallup is a private employee-owned company based in Washington, D.C., [3] [11] founded by George Gallup in 1939. Headquartered in The Gallup Building, [4] it maintains between 30 and 40 offices globally, [6] in locations including in New York City, London, Berlin, Sydney, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, and has approximately 1,500 employees.
Suttles (poll tax on men), as long as it was rational. In this case, Virginia's poll tax could be deemed rational because of the state's desire to collect revenue and the belief that people who pay to vote might have more interest in the state's policies. [4] Justice Hugo Black, a former Ku Klux Klansman himself, filed a separate dissent.
Trump filed suit Dec. 16 against the Register, its parent company Gannett and longtime Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, alleging violations of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.
The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 authorized electronic voting for the first time. [24] Electronic voting was first used in the House on January 23, 1973, to record a quorum call. [24] Under the system implemented in the 1970s, members of the House may vote at any one of a number of stations located throughout the chamber.
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