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Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
It's Tuesday, Nov. 5. Election Day is here.. Millions of voters in Michigan have already cast ballots, either through absentee voting or early voting.But many more will head to the polls today to ...
Michigan approved plans to expand Medicaid coverage in 2014 to adults with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level (approximately $15,500 for a single adult in 2014). [ 2 ] In 2018, the state electorate passed proposals to create an independent redistricting commission , [ 3 ] and to legalize the recreational use of marijuana .
Lake County election board officials moved Tuesday to take steps to end the county’s contract with Michigan based Konnech Corp., for its PollChief poll worker management software purchased in 2020.
A Michigan Court of Appeals panel moved to dismiss charges against a Kent County poll worker who inserted a USB drive into a poll book after polls closed during the 2022 August primary election.
c. 6). The poll tax was imposed again in 1692 (5 & 6 Will. & Mar. c. 14), and one final time in 1698 (9 Will. 3. c. 38), the last poll tax in England until the 20th century. A poll tax ("polemoney") was simultaneously imposed in Scotland by the Edinburgh parliament in 1693, again in 1695, and two in 1698.
The Michigan Democratic primary was held on February 27, 2024, as one of the earliest races of the larger Democratic primaries. Incumbent president Joe Biden won in a landslide, although he would lose two delegates and over 100,000 votes to the uncommitted option, which was fueled by pro-Palestine protest votes opposing Biden's campaign due to ...
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