Alternatively, you could augment the vote of people who show themselves to be better informed than average. Let people earn "brownie" points by demonstrating 1

Alternatively, you could augment the vote of people who show themselves to be better informed than average. Let people earn "brownie" points by demonstrating 1) knowledge about the costs inherent in important issues before congress and the courts (economic, social, opportunity, etc), and 2) fairmindedness (by showing they know both sides of the issues). This could be accomplished by taking a voluntary test based on free reading materials, or by earning a grade on free classes made available online and in community colleges and perhaps high schools. Your grade then decides how much your vote counts. Your vote impact score might scale your vote linearly (0 to 1), or it could decide how much to augment a baseline of, let's say, 1.0, where the max augment is to add another 1.0 for a max of 2.0. I'm sure there are lots of ways this might be done. The main point is to encourage voters to be better informed and more fair. Another goal would be to counteract mass media manipulators who spew disinformation and manipulate the underinformed. Until we can somehow accomplish (especially) the latter, America will sink ever deeper into a political system governed by anger and stupidity.