Poor people couln't vote because they would not be able to afford the tax.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
A poll tax required prospective voters to pay money.
In the middle ages. The 3rd was introduced by Richard II in the year 1380. This made everyone who was on the tax register pay 5p. It was the third time in four years that such a tax had been used.
With the government eliminating poll taxes, it allowed many more to be able to vote.
The first poll that was ever conducted by the national poll seeker George Gallop was on how people felt about the newspaper. He used his survey results to form a PH.D. thesis/