What voting-related fee was invalidated by an amendment?

• A. Literacy test
• B. Poll tax
• C. Prohibit
• D. Suffrage

Answer: (B)

A voting-related fee that was struck down by an amendment is the poll tax. A poll tax was a fee charged to voters to cast a ballot, historically used to suppress participation by poor and minority citizens. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, forbade requiring payment of a poll tax to vote in federal elections, removing a financial barrier at the national level. Later, the Supreme Court extended this protection to state elections as well. Literacy tests and other barriers weren't fees, and suffrage is the right to vote rather than a fee; “prohibit” isn’t a fee either. So the poll tax is the fee addressed by the amendment.