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EVERY VOTER
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abolish the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting in elections has . recently been keenly discussed though little understood by the - | electorate^,* The Congress of the United Suites has, for years had before it * the question as to , whc jher or not the poll tax Should' be abolished in so far as Federal elections .were concerned and it ' appears imminent that such an act prohibiting the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to voting will be made a law by Congress. If such a law Js enacted, the, result would be that where a local matter' such as the election of . a member of the State Senate or Hovse of Delegates to fill the unexpired term arose at , the same time that the voters were called ' upon to elect a member of Congress, it would be necessary to have two separate ballots and two .separate groups of voterB, unless - * the Virginia poll tax *as a pre- ; requisite to voting is abolished, f -Thb .Constitution of Virgina requires the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to voting in Virginia and the question cannot be considered by the General Assembly unless* the voters of Virginia have first enacted an amendment? authorising the elimination of the poll tax as a prerequisite to
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