View source for Shades of the old poll tax persist in election plans

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|author=Dwight Lewis
|source=The Tennessean
|date=September 17, 2006
|url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/COLUMNIST0107/609170415/1101/NEWS01
|quote="Call it a modern day poll tax — a tax that was used in the 1950s and 1960s in some parts of the South to keep certain people from voting. It shouldn't have been used then, and it shouldn't be used today."
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{{opinion|Federal Election Integrity Act|Act should be passed|against}}