Can't Pay, Can't Vote: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax

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2019

This report provides one of the first comprehensive studies of how voting rights restoration schemes deny the right to vote to those who cannot afford to pay legal debt. It makes connections between mass incarceration and mass disenfranchisement and includes a state by state analysis.

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Published on 02/22/2022