Here again the reader may think carelessly. If he is a New York reader. or an Illinois one. or an Iowa one. he may think: "We dont have a poll tax and we dont want oneso why worry?" But if these States outside the South do not have the poll tax as a qualification for voting. they have other qualifications. which they cherish strongly. They have qualifications about length of residence. about citizenship. about naturalization. Andhere is the menace to all the Statesif Congress can forbid one qualification. it can forbid any other qualification. By forbidding the poll tax as a qualification.
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