The whole “poll tax” thing is such a cheap cop-out. But repeatedly, it’s a cheap cop-out at very high levels of the judiciary. Voter registrations will take literally any sort of ID, it doesn’t have to be anything better than a library card, a supermarket card. Yes, I know those don’t have photos on them, but voter reg doesn’t require a passport or drivers’ license that the poor, very arguably may not have or need nor be able to afford.
But every state provides for some means of photo ID for free. It’s like the part of their brain that cannot help but scream “poll tax” cannot simultaneously recognize that free photo ID is widely available.
This problem is easily solved. If somebody doesn’t have an ID, and is officially in poverty, give them an ID for free.
Liberals keep saying it costs money to get legal.documents in order to get an ID. Give these so called poor a free ID then. Then the liberals can’t claim that paying fees to get an ID is poll tax.