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A more practical approach would be to have an aptitude test for general voting (higher score means heavier weight for the vote). Additional requirements could b
by zavi 9y ago
A more practical approach would be to have an aptitude test for general voting (higher score means heavier weight for the vote). Additional requirements could be added to gate voter eligibility such as having paid more federal taxes than consumed via welfare in a given year.
All of these would, however, be unconstitutional, including the original proposal in the thread.
- rtkwe 9y agoWow not only wildly unconstitutional but given the wild imbalance in educational outcomes and just raw availability of educational resources anything like that is pretty much a new round of Jim Crow laws. And why spend any resources improving the education of this new second class groups because even if you slightly improve their lives their votes are worth less. Just an all around horrible idea.