An intelligence test. I'm sick and tired of idiot, religious nutjobs who do not even know what conservatives are voting in sub-100 IQ people for bonus points in their afterlife. Honestly, conservatives are about reducing spending, and they finance the biggest disaster in the past 50 years with costs around 2$ billion a week.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/mid...rly_2b_a_week/

The purpose of the age restriction, after all, is to make sure the ignorant, impressionable and uninformed won't be misled by the mass media. It's happening anyway, so why not abolish that and make sure all voters pass an "anti-bull(*)(*)(*)(*)" test or an "intelligence" test.

Sorry, I'd rather not have my government decide who isn't intelligent enough to vote.

I will pray for your lost soul. That post was as close a thing to an ignorant rant as I have seen in quite awhile.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

AAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDD, NO, you DON'T pass the test

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

I have read this sentence several times, and am having a terrible time trying to decipher it.

I guess that makes me one of the dummies.

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening......... but this wasn't it. -- Marx

not very well put, but I totally agree with the principle. You should have to prove yourself able to make a responsible decision in order to be given the privilege of voting in an election. We're all members of society, yes, but it contributes nothing to the political process if someone is only voting democrat on the basis that they are working class, or vice versa.

I don'tthink it should be a straight up IQ test, or even a test of intelligence. But I am in favour of something like a 'driver's licence' approach, whereby you need to be able to demonstrate a degree of familiarity with the basic concepts of government, how your vote will be processed and how the party system works. This does not need to be partisan, and I fully believe that with the proper oversight, we can trust the government to be objective about it.

After all, the government takes away our freedom to drive until we prove ourselves able to do so responsibly because otherwise a lot of people would get hurt. The stakes are just as high when letting someone who has absolutely no idea how politics work vote.

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it is a mistake to throw out the language of equal worth because of its contingent historical association with Western power.

That is what the Democrats did in the South during Reconstruction to keep the blacks from voting. Among other things, they would make them pass an intelligence test that was based on interpretation of the Constitution and was set up to be too difficult for any black voter to pass.

Why stop at just voting?

What we need are breeding licenses. What I suggest is that we only allow people to vote who have a coefficient of 1 or greater when I.Q is plotted against weights. I/E -- if we have an I.Q. of 170 and a weight of 160, then we get to breed. if it's 100 over 230, no luck buster.

Let's face it, we are stupid and we are fat, so what better way to address the problem?

Oh, and btw -- my own time to breed has passed. Too many dorritos......

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening......... but this wasn't it. -- Marx

"I will pray for your lost soul. That post was as close a thing to an ignorant rant as I have seen in quite awhile."

I'm glad you are intelligent enough to provide discourse over the matter. [/sarcasm] Don't waste your time praying. Your invisible sky daddy doesn't exist. Then again, if you wish to talk to the air your entire life, I'm feeling sorry for YOU.

"Sorry, I'd rather not have my government decide who isn't intelligent enough to vote."

They are... with voting age restrictions. And if the test is standardized, then it isn't "deciding."

"That is what the Democrats did in the South during Reconstruction to keep the blacks from voting. Among other things, they would make them pass an intelligence test that was based on interpretation of the Constitution and was set up to be too difficult for any black voter to pass."

This isn't the same case. In that scenario the literacy tests were given ONLY to blacks. Whites were helped along, easier questions, etc. Otherwise, an eqivalent amount of white people would have failed them as well.

"AAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDD, NO, you DON'T pass the test"

Source?

"I have read this sentence several times, and am having a terrible time trying to decipher it.

I guess that makes me one of the dummies."

Yes.

"Why stop at just voting?

What we need are breeding licenses. What I suggest is that we only allow people to vote who have a coefficient of 1 or greater when I.Q is plotted against weights. I/E -- if we have an I.Q. of 170 and a weight of 160, then we get to breed. if it's 100 over 230, no luck buster.

Let's face it, we are stupid and we are fat, so what better way to address the problem?

Oh, and btw -- my own time to breed has passed. Too many dorritos......"

You do realize, in the case that occured, we would end up with a more intelligent, more in shape society. It would be artificial selection for the best in society. DARWINISM.

Exactly.

Age may be a bit arbitrary, but at least it's the same for all.

Also I think it's ridiculous when people blame voting they don't like on stupidity. People largely vote on emotional stimulus more often than logic- regardless of IQ or knowledge.

And most really stupid people are also the people less likely to bother voting (though some will undoubtedly claim that choice shows great wisdom )

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside