 Poll Taxes Issued 1915 Grayson County The Sherman Daily Democrat Wednesday, March 3, 1915 pg. 5 County Tax Collector Jim Akers posted poll tax receipts for Grayson County, showing a total of 9,048 people in Grayson County having secured their poll tax receipts. There were 770 exemption certificates issued. People residing outside the city limits of Denison and Sherman do not have to secure exemption certificates to vote. List of polls by precincts and voting boxes: Sherman
Denison
County Outside of Sherman & Denison
Payment
of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a
number of states until 1966. The Texas poll tax cost between
$1.50 and $1.75 to register to vote. The poll tax was used by
some states as a means of circumventing the 14th Amendment. A
number of states included exemptions based on age or veteran status or
the laws often included a grandfather clause, which allowed any male
whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the
abolition of slavery to vote without paying the poll tax. The
24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax as
a pre-condition for voting in federal elections. Records Elaine Nall Bay ©2015 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |