"Section 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. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
This amendment illegalized the use of poll taxes, or of having voter pay a fee before they could vote. During the Civil Rights era, poll taxes were used to keep poor blacks from being able to vote.
The below video is about political riots that happened in Britain as a response to the poll tax. It is our right to vote. Remember that. We cannot allow something like a poll tax from hindering our democracy.
This next video is a comedic take on our democratic responsibility to vote.
Voting and YOU!
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