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I'm interested to see if someone can actually quanitfy the harm done by voter ignorance. I mean sure if one loses an election, one may complain about all the dummies who voted for the other guy, but really how is the democratic process hurt by some percentage of the voters not knowing the answers to your questionnaire?
Democracy is strengthened by open participation and weakened by limited participation. That is why improved suffrage has strengthened it by allowing women, minorities, etc. to participate in the process. You need to demonstrate a compelling case for why an individual's participation will harm the process before you can contemplate a means to undertake such limitation.
While we may debate whether it is appropriate to expand voting to felons and minors, the fact that we have yet to do so is not sufficient to warrant contracting the currently eligible voting group.
Josh
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