Holy Moly: Georgia institutes a poll tax.
Sep. 12th, 2005 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsGeorgia's New Poll Tax.
This can't be legal. You must have an ID card to vote, and you can't get an ID card unless you shell out $20. People who swear they're "indigent" can get the card without paying, but there's no defintion of "indigent" in the law.
This can't be legal. You must have an ID card to vote, and you can't get an ID card unless you shell out $20. People who swear they're "indigent" can get the card without paying, but there's no defintion of "indigent" in the law.
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Date: 2005-09-13 01:45 am (UTC)I mostly object to the current implementation of the Georgia ID, which requires an additional for-fee voter registration card; in Washington, we get those with our taxes. The "equal before the law" applies to the polls as well, and as much as the court-appointed lawyer system sucks, it's at least an attempt to make things fair. Georgia is not even trying here. The "indigent" clause doesn't work without a proper definition, and the requirement that you present yourself to a limited number of registration sites disenfranchise those who cannot drive the miles needed to get to one.