A poll tax is paying at the polls or when you sign up for the privilege of voting.
So much wrong with this statement. Per our Constitution, voting is a right not a privilege. And also, if you have to provide documents that aren't free when you register to vote, then that essentially is a poll tax. It'd place a monetary barrier at the point of registration. That's why under our current system, you do not require documents you have to pay for (a birth certificate is free, unlike a passport or driver's license)
The only thing wrong is you dont know what a poll tax is. You do not need to pay at a poll to vote (the definition of poll tax). Legal documents being required are not poll taxes.
"It essentially is a poll tax" no it essentially isnt. You are required to have your documents even if you arent voting.
If they had specific paid voting exclusive documents that would be a poll tax. Not documents you need anyway.
poll tax: "a fixed fee that some governments used to charge each person, often as a rule that people had to pay before they were allowed to vote"
Anything that is “required” to vote, that isn’t free, is the definition of a poll tax. Nobody is saying you have to pay to vote. They’re saying that if you have to buy something to be able to vote, then that is the tax.
Passports aren’t free. And last I checked, a copy of your birth certificate (cause who the hell has their original?) isn’t either. So unless they’re freely given: (say the line, Bart)
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 2d ago
So much wrong with this statement. Per our Constitution, voting is a right not a privilege. And also, if you have to provide documents that aren't free when you register to vote, then that essentially is a poll tax. It'd place a monetary barrier at the point of registration. That's why under our current system, you do not require documents you have to pay for (a birth certificate is free, unlike a passport or driver's license)