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- Timeline of Voting & Elections in Texas.
- Terrell Election Law: The Terrell Election Law was part of a wave of election reform legislation instituting a poll tax, secret ballot, and a closed primary system in Texas from 1902 to 1907, during the Progressive Era of United States history. The 1903 law allowed parties to restrict who could vote in their primaries, paving the way to exclude African-American voters from Democratic Party primaries. A poll tax had been established in 1902 and both laws disenfranchised African Americans. The Terrell Law was named for Alexander W. Terrell. The law was revised in 1905–1906. A 1923 amendment established a complete ban on African Americans voting in any Democratic Party primaries. Lawrence Aaron Nixon sued and the law was eventually thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court (Nixon v. Herndon). A modified version of the law was passed by the Texas Legislature and again thrown out upon reaching the U.S. Supreme Court in a suit filed by Nixon. The decision was written by Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.
- Poll Taxes in the United States.
- Why did Texas have a poll tax, and when did it end?
- Texas and the Poll Tax.
- Did Women Vote Once they had the Opportunity? . . . state election laws contained a range of restrictions and requirements at the time of women’s enfranchisement, and permitted considerable bureaucratic discretion in the enforcement of those laws. Black women in the South were particular targets. In Richmond, Virginia, for example, black and white women seeking to register to vote in advance of the 1920 presidential election overwhelmed registration offices. The city responded by appointing three additional deputies for white women, but multiple requests to make similar accommodations for black women were ignored. The result was a long line of black women outside registration offices, due to both the small number of registrars and the more frequent challenges to the black woman vote.
- Texas Voter Qualifications, Proposition 1 (July 1921).
- Non-citizens (aliens) voting rights in Texas.
- Fighting to Lose the Vote: How the Soldier Voting
Acts of 1942 and 1944 Disenfranchised America's
Armed Forces.
- Carrington v. Rash, 380 U.S. 89 (1965).
- Texas Voting in the Armed Forces, Proposition 14 (1966).
