UMKC POLISCI-210

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The right to vote may not be denied based on one's ability to pay poll or voting taxes set.

Is making one pay to vote against the Constitutional rights given to the people because they have the right to vote. If one cannot pay the poll tax, they have to wait for hours to be able to vote. That amount of standing for being able to vote is also a poll tax-people could not afford the wait during voting, (long waits, hard floors, etc.) The video below gives another reason as to how any poll tax, compensated by physical exertion or anything else. Abolish the poll tax; make it an ability to either have easier ways of paying the poll tax whether physically or cashing. 



Why are there even poll taxes? Why make someone pay for democracy? That greed for money that the citizens don't know what even happens to it once the vote has been cast. The poll tax, thinking on a monetary tax, is something that is made to be given to each person voting from each state. A right to vote comes with having to pay to get that right? How does that make the amendment already added sound in any way? Why pay for an opinion? Why compensate those that are taxing you. Why make that sacrifice to be able to be heard?
Because most don't. To be heard in any sense is something people long for in any situation. People will stop at nothing to get what they want.

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