There was another built-in inequity in the system. Mississippi, for instance, required receipts for two years of poll taxes in order to vote. The tilt in the playing field was apparent when arch-segregationist Theodore Bilbo’s political operation worked with election officials to handle the difficulty of keeping track of multiyear receipts. His all-white constituency’s “receipts are not only bought for them but are kept on file, issued on election day, re-collected and saved for the next year.” The political machines in Texas did something similar. They would “buy up as many poll tax receipts
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