GOP's ‘modern-day poll tax’ scheme ignites swift student backlash: 'Not looking good'

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Republican elected officials are “attacking college voters” by cutting campus polling access, Mother Jones reported Monday — but the longer trips to vote have fueled student organizing in key battleground states. “It essentially creates a modern-day poll tax,” North Carolina A&T student organizer Shia Rozier told the outlet. After Republican election officials rejected an early voting site at the historically Black university, student Jimmie Holton Jr. faced paying up to $30 for a rideshare or walking 45 minutes. He joined roughly 300 students on a march to vote. Mother Jones pointed to a…

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