Point to what state your voting in or you can’t vote
How about if you cannot find the state your voting in on a map of the United States you cannot vote. You don’t even have to read to do that but it would probably eliminate almost half of all Americans. You better not use a globe or a third of them could not even find the United States.
Should All Americans be allowed to vote? - HUMAN EVENTS
Should we allow just anyone with a registration card to vote? In my view, we should not. There will be those who will abhor the notion that only “smart” people should be allowed to vote and how and where, they will argue, can you draw the line? Good questions, certainly, but we had better try real hard to embrace the argument and find some answers.
The vetting process can be debated and the final definitions of the “authorities” over voter legitimacy can be formulated at length to make a new system as fair as can be. But it does need to be done, and the sooner the better, because allowing really stupid people to vote for really stupid reasons or no reason at all is in itself a very bad idea.
Now notice in the commentary lines for this article who will address the concepts embraced in this article and who will instead simply attack me for having a father they didn’t like, or call me a “neo-con” (whatever that really is), or decry my Harvard education or some other utterly absurd personal attack and/or off the issue remark. Certainly that is their right
as a responding reader, and in such a small matter as this article it doesn’t much matter, but in an American presidential election, with so much at stake for the mass of humanity, does it make sense to have a voter base made up of people who in some cases haven’t the slightest idea at all what they are voting for?
Date posted: Monday, July 28th, 2008 4:38 pm | Under category: American patriot topics, dumb
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
It would not trouble me a bit to have to answer some basic “citizenship” type questions in order to vote, especially knowing that others would need to do the same.
A big part of why our republic has degenerated into a de facto oligarchy is because we’ve let — even encouraged — rank idiot to vote. And the oligarchy likes it that way too!
I can’t imagine this actually happening in the USA as works today; we would have to suffer a collapse and some sort of restructure in order to regain that kind of sanity.
However, just checking picture IDs at the polls would be a very good start.