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> When you vote, it's a quiz. Tests-to-vote have a… checkered history: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_te
by throw0101b 3y ago
> When you vote, it's a quiz.
Tests-to-vote have a… checkered history:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test
- lordnacho 3y agoThey have a checkered history in certain contexts. What's wrong with asking people simple stuff that is published beforehand like "Who was our first president?".
- dragonwriter 3y ago> What’s wrong with asking people simple stuff that is published beforehand like “Who was our first president?”. Its either not relevant (and therefore any coincidental discrimatory effect is far out of proportion to its value) to the voting at hand, or its not uncontroversial (in which case its simply a test for agreement with the viewpoint of the test creator, and a direct tool for excluding other viewpoints).
- shagie 3y agoThat information was tested in grade school civics class or as part of the citizenship exam. Let's try some other questions. In what decade did we land on the moon? Who was elected in the previous presidential election? The Earth is thousands? millions? billions of years old? I am fairly sure you could find people who would be more than willing to put those questions on the tests with the goal of disenfranchising people who have belief in the other answer.
- throw0101b 3y ago> The Earth is thousands? millions? billions of years old? Is the Earth round or flat?