Poll Tax - NO
IQ Test - YES!
Oh, and SPEAKING ENGLISH should be a determining factor too.
No Ballots in Mandarin Dammit!
Poll tax,yes.I believe that the national budget deficit should be divided equally by the number of registered voters.There's your poll tax.Only those who pay should vote.Why do we let the homeless and destitute vote?They should demonstrate that they have a handle on their own lives before they can have a say in the governing of the nation.
By FEDERAL law, ballots and voter information are available in 7 languages. I'm happy to know that one of them is English. The others, as I recall, are: Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog.
For those that don't know the above 7 languages, they are allowed helpers/translators to assist them with the vote. Just in my district, the local water quality report was mailed out recently and was available in 11 languages.
IQ tests or literacy tests will never fly. In CA, we can't even demand proof of citizenship prior to voting.