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Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/48
https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_polltax_1.html
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxiii/interpretations/155
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt23-1/ALDE_00001010/
For the 23rd amendment, the District of Colmbia could not vote because the founding fathers did not want their
capital to be a state or in a state. For the longest time they could not vote after nearly 200 years. Now that the 23rd amendment is in place, the citizen of the dsitrist can now vote in the electoral college
Section 1.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The District of Comlombia are coters and the eleciton taxes are no longer in use as they are banned
The 24th amendent ended poll taxes. Imagine you are register to vote in our first election but do you have enough money to do so?
This was declared unconstinal and was abloshed by the ratifaction of the 24th amendment.
After much research, there is no surpreme court cases involving the 23rd amendment.
Annie Harper was a Virgina resident that could not afford the poll tax of three and a half dollars so she fought and calimed that it violeted the Equal Protection Clause under the 14th amendent but the federal district court dismissed it and it went to the Surpreme court where it was a 6-3 favor in Harper and the poll tax was elimated.