Promote healthy sexual behaviors, strengthen community capacity, and increase access to quality services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and their complications. STDs refer to more than 25 infectious organisms that are transmitted primarily through sexual activity.
The Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional. In the meantime, the 1964 ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed imposition of a poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections, and the federal. poll tax is a tax levied as a prerequisite for voting. After. (1865â1877)âthe twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861â1865)âmany southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.
The United States Constitution defines (to a basic extent) how federal elections are held, in Article One and Article Two and various amendments. The federal government has also been involved in attempts to increase voter turnout, by measures such as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.n a national level, the head of state, the President, is elected indirectly by the people, through an Electoral College. Today, the electors virtually always vote with the popular vote of their state. All members of the federal legislature, the Congress, are directly elected.