Harman v. Forssenius
Case Date: 07/22/1965
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Harman v. Forssenius, was a 1965 United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that Virginia's law partially eliminating the poll tax violated the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Virginia had attempted to dodge this anti-poll tax constitutional amendment by allowing for the poll tax to be waived if the would-be voter filed a certificate of residency six months prior to the election. This decision essentially was the death knell for the poll tax in Virginia.
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