Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4

He owed $5,670.57, but most of it was the kind of debt that isn't supposed to prevent you from voting. Could be a screwup, could be a subtle screw-you to poor people. In the first case the racial bias here is that black people don't always have the clout to get this kind of technical screw-up changed. Good for him for going to the media to fix it.

Or maybe the policy was read that way purposely without regard for the poor/undeserving. I don't want to be too trusting.

It doesn't really matter how much he owed, and for what reason. Believe it or not, my country has a poll stations even in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, because every citizen has a right to vote.

EDIT: no, not babies. Every citizen over 18 years old. Point is: no one can be stripped of this right.

Racially biased system? Was he fined $4 for being black?

Ckickbait title. He wasn't disenfranchised because he "owed $4" (or any given amount); he was disenfranchised because he is a felon who had not made restitution.

His state, to its credit, provides a path to reenfranchisement simply by repaying his victims; he just hadn't completed that process.

4 dollar democracy. It is all a show to get people to pay their taxes. I have noticed a pattern in all the versions of the human experiment. The man says give me your money because than I will do X. After some time X is not relevant or mentioned by the man himself and because the man now has a gigantic cashflow he also has the means to defend what he think is his share of everything.