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Harman v. Forssenius, was a 1965 United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that Virginia's law partially eliminating the poll tax violated the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Virginia had attempted to dodge this anti-poll tax constitutional amendment by allowing for the poll tax to be waived if the would-be voter filed a certificate of residency six months prior to the election. This decision essentially was the death knell for the poll tax in Virginia. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Harman v. Forssenius

Argued: March 1 and 2, 1965. --- Decided: April 27, 1965

Joseph C. Carter, Jr., Richmond, Va., for appellants.

H. E. Windener, Jr., Bristol, Va., for appellees.

Harold H. Greene, Washington, D.C., for United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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