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Originally Posted by Xazy
You can blame IQ, knowladge etc.. I know smart people who vote party, without knowing anything about the candidate. To me I think those individuals should not be allowed to vote. But the power of the US, is that we are not an elitist country (well not supposed to be) and everyone has a voice. While I do think some people are stupid and should not be allowed one, I feel that any form of censorship of the voice of the people can lead to another and another group...
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Well, there is one group worth noting that is universally denied the right to vote: minors. Those unfortunate persons under 18, even those who pay taxes, are not permitted to vote. I'm pretty sure the reason that minors aren't allowed to vote is that they are not well-informed enough to affect national elections. Sooo, wouldn't it be a good idea to administer a political test to potential voters to weed out the uninformed? While we're at it, we could allow informed teenagers to vote. That way, voting rights would be dependent upon knowledgeability, rather than age.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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