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Jul 31, 2019

Does the U.S. have a modern poll tax?

A judge rules against nonprofits’ “dark money” donors. Audi’s ex-CEO gets caught up in the VW diesel scandal. How states still block people who can’t afford to pay court fines from voting.

Voters cast their ballots at the polling place in the Father Thomas A. Bernas Parish Center in Chicago, Illinois on April 2, 2019.
Voters cast their ballots at the polling place in the Father Thomas A. Bernas Parish Center in Chicago, Illinois on April 2, 2019.
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