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Ohio Republicans Sneak Last-Minute in ‘Poll Tax’

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Channel: The Fowler Show · 2015 · News & Politics

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Under a last-minute addition to Ohio’s transportation budget, close to 116,000 college students will have to pay what a Democratic lawmaker is calling a “poll tax” in order to vote.
Republicans in the state Senate late last week inserted into the budget bill a provision which would require people who move to the state and register to vote to re-register their cars with Ohio within 30 days. Otherwise, they would be required to surrender their driver’s licenses from their home state. A joint House and Senate committee will debate the legislation and whether to keep the provision Tuesday afternoon.
If the provision is not removed, out-of-state college students will have to pay close to $100 to re-register their vehicles in Ohio in order to cast a ballot in their new home state, placing another barrier on voting in a state whose elections chief’s efforts have actually made it harder for people to vote.
“It’s very concerning the message we’re sending to young people and to people moving to our great state about their fundamental right to vote,” state Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D), who is fighting the provision, told ThinkProgress. “I would like to throw out the welcome mat to them and encourage them to participate in their community and participate in their democracy, but this provision does the exact opposite.”


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STORY: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/24/3638342/ohio-budget-voting/

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