Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Besides cleaning up voter fraud nationally, including the great New York Florida link, I personally think it is time you have to pass a simple test to be eligible to vote. The questions would be quite simple with no bias. Name the current president, vice president and one supreme court justice. Name the two or three candidates running for president. Name two candidates that have been selected to run for vice president. Name one U.S. congressman and senator from your state. After hearing replays of Howard Sterns thing the other day, it is obvious that way too many are just too stupid to vote. Local radio and some national TV personalities have done the same types of man in the street interviews. It is real obvious that many should simply not consider voting for anyone or any cause. They should just go back to watching Jerry Springer and not harm the rest of us by thinking!
Great Sandy, take it back to the Jim Crow era. Why don't we just charge a poll tax. Hey for $1000 you can vote, might be Gov. Romney's best chance to win, then those guys that keep pumping money into SuperPacs wouldn't have to spend millions on ads, just the $1,000 to vote.
While it is a shame that people don't know the answers to those questions you pose, that is probably another issue for another day, in most cases those people probably don't even vote. But wasn't this country founded on "We the People" Not "We the smart people, hey not you
ignorant people can't vote etc. etc." Heck if we go by ignorant, there are probably many "talking heads" and some politicians would not be eligible to vote.
In my opinion, everyone that complies with the applicable laws should be allowed to vote. I have no problem with convected criminals not voting, although after they have paid their debt to society I believe they may have that right back. I know there is a debate that voting is a right, while others say it is a privilege, I think we have the right to vote, it is a privilege that we do vote.
Mel