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I know there are a lot of people here more familiar with the laws than I am. Hopefully some of you will share your ideas so I won't have to continue debating it in my head :)
1 posted on 05/07/2008 7:54:49 PM PDT by samson1097
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Just a thought, but failure to pay would also include other possible felonies including filing of false tax returns or fraud. So while technically, they may not prevent your voting under the Constitution for not paying, other crimes associated with not paying would trump that.


2 posted on 05/07/2008 8:02:35 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: samson1097
The 14th amendment recognizes the right of a state to deny voting rights to citizens "for participation in rebellion, or other crime."

I suppose someone who was sent to prison solely for failing to pay taxes, and who lost the right to vote as a result, might try to use the 24th amendment to reclaim his voting rights, but such people are presumably a very small fraction of the felons who are barred from voting.

3 posted on 05/07/2008 8:44:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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