The Glade 4.0

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Important context for those who don't click through.

Doesn't seem like a "poll tax" to me.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

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I see no establishment of fact there.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

If it is on the interwebz, it is indeed a fact.

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It is. If you are required to have anything that costs time or money to vote, its a "poll tax", and ∴ unconstitutional.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Reference RD's post. First reply in the thread.

This law allows people to vote without IDs, if they sign an affidavit and get their picture taken.

Hence, there's no involved required cost, at all.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Signing something and getting your picture taken is a poll tax now? Give me a **** break. No one has any reason to get mad about this.

What if having my picture taken is against my religion?

I should be able to vote for who I want, where I want, as many times as I want.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Oh how little legal history you know ...

Poll Taxes themselves were not inherently unconstitutional or problematic: they've existed without problem in every state at one point or another. "Disparate Impact" originated from poll tax disputes and the argument that Southern states used literacy tests and other poll verification methods to keep minorities from voting. We're still having this argument; only, this time, it's the Democrats asserting the South still uses the practices and that only negligible voter fraud occurs (never mind who actually committed the known fraud in the last election cycle).

As it stands ...

There are no Constitutional provisions on how the States should handle their elections until the previously mythical, but still undefined, 'right to vote' shows up in the 14th Amendment.

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I guess when people sign their name at the polling place, or even when they fill out the ballot, not to mention going to the polling place, it's a poll tax, as these things all take time.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

No.

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Holy shitsnacks!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I saw 'poll tax' and thought about a new tax on strippers...

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Raell Kromwell

That's this thread: /viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9067.