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I need a clear, unadulterated, non biased, and zero politically charged answer to this question: Is it a poll tax to require American citizens to have their birth certificate, social security card, marriage certificate/change of name documents and photo identification available to present to poll workers in order to register to vote, if the S.A.V.E Act passes Congress? This is assuming someone doesn't have one, some, or any of these documents on hand.
This is not a poll tax per se.
The government is allowed to have reasonable regulations of voting as long as the regulations do not prevent people from voting. The Supreme Court has declared that voting ID laws, at least on their face, are constitutional. Whether voter ID laws in practice and the rest of the SAVE Act provisions are constitutional remains to be seen.
