[EL] Postage Question

[Richard Winger]

because the voter is free to drop it off at any polling place or voting center on election day.  The postage is not a requirement for returning the voted ballot.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

      From: "Gaddie, Ronald K." <rkgaddie at ou.edu>
 To: Election Law <Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu> 
 Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:19 AM
 Subject: [EL] Postage Question
   
 <!--#yiv4497096805 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}-->Query: A former student, who is a lawyer and a Ph.D. candidate, wrote and asks "how is paying postage on an absentee ballot not a poll tax?"

Any knowledgable answers are greatly appreciated.
Ronald Keith Gaddie, Ph.D.
President's Associates Presidential Professor
Chair, Department of Political Science
Senior Fellow, Headington College
Associate Director, Center for Intelligence & National Security
General Editor, Social Science Quarterly
The University of Oklahoma
p: 405.325.2061  |e: rkgaddie at ou.edu  | t:@GaddieWindage

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