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From: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford)
Newsgroups: net.legal,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Literacy tests and the right to vote (was: voter challenging)
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 16:23:47 EDT
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Summary: Voting without Taxes
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In a previous article, Peter Osgood writes:
> 
> >Wrong.  (You did prove your point, though, that people who *can* read 
> >don't know enough to vote intelligently.)  The Constitution gives the
> >states the power to decide voting qualifications with a few restrictions:
> >1.) race cannot be a factor; 2.) sex cannot be a factor; 3.) over 18,
> >age cannot be a factor; 4.) poll taxes can be used to prevent voting
> >in a Federal election.
> >
> >Clayton E. Cramer
> 
> Wrong on 4.  Amendment XXIV of the US Constitution states:
> 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any
> primary or other election for President or Vice President, for
> electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or 
> Representative in Congress, 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.
> 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article
> by appropriate legislation.
> 
> ratification completed January 23, 1964.
> 
> 				---peter osgood---

  Notice anything, fellow net.legal persons?  (Yes, the amendment is quoted
correctly and completely)  According to the Constitution, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
PAY TAXES IN ORDER TO VOTE!   "....or other tax."
  I do feel that this is the way it should be (after all, even if you don't
pay taxes, the government still messes with your life in a myriad of ways);
I just wanted to be sure the point was noticed.


-- 
Robert Bickford     {lll-crg,hplabs}!well!rab