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If you use 'polarity' in the sense of electric charge, no, it does not. Voltage is simply another word for potential difference and potential difference doesn't have an electric charge. Potential, on the other hand does, but its charge polarity depends on from where it is being measured.

If you use 'polarity' in the sense of direction, then, yes, it does. You can allocate direction to a voltage.

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