CMV: Voter ID Laws in the SAVE ACT Constitute an Illegal Poll Tax

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SAVE Act Text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8281/text

The text provides that in order to vote you must provide photo identification to vote. It does not offer a remedy for States to provide said ID to all US Citizens for free in an accessible manor.

Unless that photo ID is provided free and accessible by the government it would constitute a poll tax and cause the law to become unconstitutional.

Some text backing the illegality of poll taxes:

24th Amendment text regarding poll tax:

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.

1966 Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections:

The Supreme Court reversed its decision in Breedlove v. Suttles to also include the imposition of poll taxes in state elections as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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