re: #195 Renaissance_Man

Nope. I think in an ideal setting, the right to vote should be earned. And not by some ridiculous literacy test or any other feeble measure. Naturally, allowing anyone who is carbon-based to vote is better than having nobody voting. But even better would be having the right to vote being earned, and well earned.

Furthermore, now that we have given everyone the right to vote, it then behooves us to go further, and require that people vote. I absolutely believe in compulsory voting. It would solve so very many of the problems that exist in the current US system.

The right to vote should be earned = competency test of some sort.

Who chooses the test?
Who decides what it consists of, and what the passing score is for a person to “earn” the right to vote?

slippery slippery slope.