A Republican attempt at voter suppression

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dDjUR-ePBgQ

 

11th Circuit Judges Robert Lagoa and Barbara Luck broke ethics rules to stop up to 1 million Floridians from voting in 2020.

A breach of judicial ethics may have prevented up to 1 million Floridians from voting in November. On July 1, a federal appeals court lifted an order that had blocked Florida from imposing a poll tax on people convicted of felonies. The U.S. Supreme Court then declined to step in. If two judges appointed by President Donald Trump had complied with the judicial Code of Conduct, Florida’s discriminatory and unworkable poll tax might well have remained blocked through Election Day. And Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are now demanding that these judges explain their justification for flouting their ethical duties.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/11th-circuit-florida-fines-fees-judicial-ethics.html

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

Every American family basically pays an $8,000 ‘poll tax’ under the U.S. health system, top economists say - The Washington Post

U.S. families pay over $8,000 more a year in health costs than families in Switzerland, the next-most-expensive health system in the world. Princeton University economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case say that's akin to a hefty tax for which Americans get no benefit.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/07/every-american-family-basically-pays-an-poll-tax-under-us-health-system-top-economists-say/

New Hampshire Democrats call out Republicans for attempting to pass 'poll tax' on college students -- ThinkProgress.org

New Hampshire's Senate voted on Tuesday to advance legislation that would require voters to be residents of the state, effectively disenfranchising thousands of college students who are currently considered eligible voters. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/new-hampshire-student-voting-312061e51f13/

Robert Reich: Jim Crow Is Making a Furious Comeback | Alternet

The former secretary of labor warns hundreds of thousands are being disenfranchised....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-jim-crow-making-furious-comebackw