<P> The Twenty - fourth Amendment ( Amendment XXIV ) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax . The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27 , 1962 , and was ratified by the states on January 23 , 1964 . </P>
ratified in 1964 the twenty fourth amendment outlawed this in national elections
conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax