Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — Voting and the Poll Tax. [ARTICLE]

Voting and the Poll Tax.

In several States the payment of a poll tax Is a condition of suffrage. There is a poll tax in Arkansas, Delaware (where It Is called a registration fee), Mississippi ($2 a head), Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Georgia, the requirement in the last State being the payment of all taxes since 1877. By the 1900 Federal census the population of. Georgia was 2,210,000, and under the ordinary ratio of voters to population, one- In &lx> the total vote In Georgia should be about 370,000. Actually it Is only one-third of this, or 122,000 last year.