Voting Rights Roundup: Court axes Florida GOP's poll tax, restoring voting rights to roughly 775,000

In a historic victory against Republican voter suppression, a federal district court struck down a law that Republicans passed to impose a modern-day poll tax that disenfranchised would-be voters who had served their felony sentences but still owed court fines and fees. The judge ruled that the law established a "tax by any other name" in violation of the 24th Amendment's ban on disenfranchising voters "by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax." The court's decision means that hundreds of thousands of disproportionately Black voters will regain the right to vote. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/29/1948663/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Court-axes-Florida-GOP-s-poll-tax-restoring-voting-rights-to-roughly-775-000