Unless you can guarantee an excellent, unbiased education (by that I mean the same education standards in poor communities as exist in wealthier ones and private institutes) for all people, you cannot demand an educational requirement for voting.

Plus, that also undermines the rights of retarded people. If we do that, how will Bush be able to vote?

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Not all people can tackle higher education. Your depriving them a vote because of something they were born with.

Thats a terrible idea. IQ is a very poor measurement of intelligence.

Also heres a thought what about someone whos extremely succesful but didn't need a degree to do it? Or what about someone who is extremely academic but studies under his own time and not in a university? All this would do is discriminate against people who are to poor for college or who don't need/want it. You can't measure the education of everyone in the country the idea is insane.

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Collective? I'm sure thats easy when your not surrounded by a bunch of (*)(*)(*)(*)ing retards!!!

Sorry if someone already mentioned it, but this used to be done.

It was made illegal (unconstitutional?) because it was said to be targeted at blacks who were not as intelligent as whites back then. So that'd be a no - it can't happen, it's been outlawed.

Already been outlawed. Several states used to require this; courts found it would hurt the less educated blacks and give the advantage to whites who would get a better education. Crowe laws I believe they were called.

and again i bring up the example of the person with a down syndrome. I would be glad if the election of the new president would not lay in the hands of people who can't even take care of themselves properly.


oh is it? you are an authority on iq tests are you?

as i said before, let's rephrase it to people who have achieved things.

You can measure it and you should. There should be some filtering. There are some people who clearly are not fit to vote (think of severely impaired or mentally challenged handicapped people), i don't think there are many that would disagree with me if i would say that those people should not be able to vote. These are people who can't take care of themselves and can barely grasp the concept of democracy, let alone the complex issues that are playing key roles in the governmental policies.

Do you think severely impaired or severely mentally challenged handicapped people would be able to complete the registration process?

with help they can.