Reply #71: I disagree with you and I disagree with the disingenous methods

[rzemanfl]

you use to argue your point. Here's something the case actually says:

"For federal elections, the poll tax is abolished absolutely as a prerequisite to voting, and no equivalent or milder substitute may be imposed."

Requiring a voter ID that costs money to obtain to prove citizenship is a voter suppression mechanism and is a poll tax.

The case also says at footnote 17:

"One of the basic objections to the poll tax was that it exacted a price for the privilege of exercising the franchise. Congressional hearings and debates indicate a general repugnance to the disenfranchisement of the poor occasioned by failure to pay the tax."

Then of course there is the amendment itself, which says:

"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."

A tax, according to Webster, is "a charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes."