The Alabama Veteran Poll Tax Exemptions, Amendment 4, also known as Amendment 4, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 11, 1951, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that anyone who honorably served in the military service of the United States between January 1, 1917, and November 11, 1918, or between September 16, 1940, and December 8, 1941, or at any time past, present or future, when the United States was, is or shall be engaged in hostilities, whether as a result of a declared war or not, with any foreign state shall be required after the beginning of such service to pay the poll tax specified in the constitution of Alabama as a prerequisite to the privilege of voting in Alabama; but, on the contrary, every such person shall be exempt from the payment of all poll taxes which have theretofore accrued and have not been paid or which may thereafter accrue; provided, however, that if any such person is discharged dishonorably from service the exemption herein provided is forfeited, and such dishonorably discharged person, as a prerequisite to the privilege of voting in Alabama thereafter, must pay the poll tax specified in the constitution of Alabama as if such person had never been in service.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 4 (December 1951) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage |
 a Yes | 97,806 | 73.73% |
| No | 34,848 | 26.27% |
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1951
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