ABOLITION OF POLL TAX OPPOSED
SUGGESTED PENALTY FOR NOT VOTING IN, U.S.A.
(Received September 12,11.20 pjna.) WASHINGTON, September 12. Opposing a suggestion by the President (Mr Franklin .D. Roosevelt) to abolish poll taxes to increase the number of voters, Senator Carter Glass, a senior senator, is mooting the adoption of the Australian system of penalizing voters who do not exercise the franchise.
Senator Glass pointed out that frequently less than half the people who qualified by paying the poll tax actually voted, so that abolition of the tax would not solve the problem.
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Southland Times, Issue 23612, 13 September 1938, Page 7
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