some people do not like my reading of the sources, so let’s go with references only:
Deut 16:18
Brochos 55a
Yer AZ 16a
Pirkei Avos 3:2
CM 163:1
Midrash Tanhuma, Mishpatim 2:1
Rosh Responsa, 6:10
R Hirsh 19 letters 16:4
Darash Moshe, Vol. I, p. 415 (1939)
Rav Moshe Feinstein Letter, October 3, 1984
Chazon Ish to an Yid who did not vote because he did not pay the poll tax: go and sell your pair of tefillin and use the funds to pay the poll tax so that you can go and vote
