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In Richmond, Va., Delegate Jerry H. Geisler comments on discriminatory voting practices that have made their way through the Constitution of Virginia

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At the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., the Virginia General Assembly is in the process of revising the Constitution of Virginia. A provision on poll taxes, which were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been moving along in the legislative process. Delegate Jerry H. Geisler tells WSLS-TV that the study commission on this amendment recommends that it be deleted from the constitution and is certain that it will not have a place in the final revised version.
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  1. Constitutional Amendments
  2. Virginia
  3. Virginia. Constitution (1971)

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