Amendment 24

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.

Amendment 24 clearly states that poll taxes shall be eliminated. We eliminated these taxes because they were used in the south to discriminate against the blacks because they were usually poor and couldn't afford the taxes. But on the other hand they were making the government money. If we still had poll taxes today, yeah we probably wouldn't be as much in debt, but voter turn out would be at an all time low. Especially with the way the economy looks right now.

http://www.deafvote.com/why_vote/24th-amendment-explained.html

This link takes you to a little commentary about how poll taxes worked and why the 24th amendment was created.

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This video talks about how long it takes to wait to vote. This is the problem mainly for presidential and popular election where everyone wants to vote in. She is saying that the amount of time that it takes to vote is simular to a poll tax because it's taking time from peoples jobs and cause them to have to pay anyway.