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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I would wholly support some sort of literacy/civics/whatever test to vote. If voting is supposed to be a great priviledge and something seen as important, those who vote should be qualified to do the task in a somewhat able manner. Anything that decreases the number of people who vote (at least those who lack basic understanding of politics or the issues they vote on) is something that can only do good.
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So would you be in favour of requiring a certain IQ to vote? How about that you must own land?
It just seems like a wrong path to go down for a modern democracy. I mean democracy is meant to be about what the people want, even if it may be unwise at times (which is also subjective, so it is difficult to judge).