You don't have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.

你不必为投票付费（人头税）。

There was still discrimination at the polls like poll taxes and literacy tests that prevented many African Americans from voting.

民调显示歧视仍然存在，就像选举税和读写能力测试，它们限制了许多非裔美国人的投票。

Ed Miliband, Labour's leader, dubbed the reforms Mr Cameron's poll tax, a reference to the policy that helped fell Margaret Thatcher.

工党领袖埃德·米利班德把这些改革戏称为卡梅伦的人头税，一个曾经让撒切尔夫人下台的参考政策。

Many legal fees are like modern day poll taxes.

许多法律费用就像现代的人头税。

A poll tax upon slaves is altogether different from a poll-tax upon freemen.

对奴隶征收人头税与对自由人征收人头税完全不同。

The poll tax was a creature of the government.

【creature】人头税是政府的发明。

Every pollster must pay poll tax at the polling booth.

每个民意测验者必须在投票站付人头税。

Even after the US finally abolished slavery, and eventually gave Black Americans the right to vote, White Southern leaders found ways to keep them from voting, like with discriminating laws like poll taxes, and acts of violence.

即使在美国最终废除奴隶制之后，最终给了美国黑人选举权，南方的白人领袖还是用比如像人头税这样的歧视性法律，还有暴力行为，去阻止他们投票。

However, things did improve for the poor as  the rebellion had frightened the rich, and they realized they could not push commoners too far.  No government collected a poll tax until 1990.

然而，由于叛乱吓坏了富人， 穷人的情况确实有所改善，他们意识到他们不能把平民逼得太远。 直到 1990 年， 政府才征收人头税。

The only way we're ever going to have equal rights in America is if we get rid of the modern day literacy tests and poll taxes that dominate our courts and legal system.

我们要在美国拥有平等权利的唯一途径是，如果我们摆脱现代识字测试和主导我们法院和法律制度的人头税。