The issue in the US particularly is that TOO FEW people vote. Both the Republicans and Democrats are interested in getting MORE people to vote.
You don’t want to make it hard for them to do so.
What your suggesting would lead to a tiered voting system. If you say a person who is behind in property taxes NOT be allowed to vote for property issues.
OK fair enough, but would they be allowed to vote for President? Governor? Mayor?
If so then you would have to have TWO elections on seperate dates, or two ballots on one date. Then you would have to set up a monitoring system to stop people from voting incorrectly.
Look what happened when the voting rights act lowered the voting age to 18. It as quickly challanged and then Supreme Court upheld the right of the act for federal elections but not state elections.
This left a potential mess with those 18-20 being allowed to vote for federal elections but not state elections in some cases. Quickly the 26th Amendment was passed so that there wouldn’t need to be two systems.
It is important to note that the 26th Amendment passed faster than any other amendment 'cause everyone saw what a mess it’d be.
OK so let’s say you simply say “People behind in their property taxes shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all.”
Both Republican and Democrats would be up in arms because this would mean a lot of people couldn’t vote. And today with so many elections coming down to the wire, every vote counts.
Neither party is going to let one potential vote go to waste.
Basically the attitude is, if property taxes aren’t being collected than it’s up to the governmental agency to be agressive and GET those taxes.
There’s plenty of laws to collect and enforce collection of taxes already they are not being enforced.
If you take away a person’s right to vote, he’ll most likely say, “Who cares,” and simply not vote.