NC’s ‘Modern Poll Tax’ Disenfranchises Residents with Felony Records

North Carolina still uses a modern-day poll tax when it comes to allowing residents with felony convictions to vote, according to a new report from the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law School and the Campaign Legal Center. “Nearly six million individuals are denied the right to vote in the United States due to a past conviction, and, for many of those individuals, the ability to vote is contingent upon their ability to pay an increasing number of fines, fees, court costs, and restitution,” the report states.

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