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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Mandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test.
Nobody else is allowed to vote.
i don't see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is "moral" is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable
You really don't want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.
Yeah because there's definitely no voter suppression going on already. Let's make sure the dregs of society can share their dumbass opinions when things come to a general vote.
That's a false equivalence. Building up society as a whole is better than trying to determine "the most relevant" voices.
I suspect the people who would set this test would be the exact opposite of the people you want to set this test, in more than 50% of the seats.
Oh, and a tax