Yes or No: IQ Tests to Vote?

#26
#26
Burhead said:
I've come to the point where I think we should mandate that everyone take an IQ test prior to voting in elections. Seriously, there are people on both sides that have no business whats so ever to be deciding the future of our country.
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No. But would be in favor of applying that criteria for being able to start threads in VolNation. Really simple formula...

  • Below a set minimum, can read threads/posts only.
  • Next level would provide the ability to post.
  • Starting threads reserved for only the highest IQ level.

Unfortunately for Freak this would drastically cut down the volume of activity to this site.
 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
No. But would be in favor of applying that criteria for being able to start threads in VolNation. Really simple formula...

  • Below a set minimum, can read threads/posts only.
  • Next level would provide the ability to post.
  • Starting threads reserved for only the highest IQ level.

Unfortunately for Freak this would drastically cut down the volume of activity to this site.
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And the entertainment value.
 
#30
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Burhead said:
I've come to the point where I think we should mandate that everyone take an IQ test prior to voting in elections. Seriously, there are people on both sides that have no business whats so ever to be deciding the future of our country.
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I could not agree more with the bolded above. Managing to make it to a booth (perhaps bussed in and given cigarettes for your troubles) is an awfully low bar for casting a vote for elected officials.

Having said that I just don't see a practical way to make this work. I think it'd be a good idea to have random names, like 10 or so, thrown in with the actual candidates names just so the people voting would at least have to be able to pick out who they are voting for. (Anybody wanna bet there wouldn't be LOTS of votes for people that weren't even candidates?)
 
#31
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PKT_VOL said:
A rigorous history, economics, and political test ought to be passed by every voter. No age limit or other qualifications besides being a US citizen.
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If that were the requirement only immigrants who had recently passed the citizenship test would pass.
 
#32
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YorkVol said:
If that were the requirement only immigrants who had recently passed the citizenship test would pass.
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ok that's a test I could get behind for voting rights since it's amazing how bad Americans score
 
#33
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YorkVol said:
If that were the requirement only immigrants who had recently passed the citizenship test would pass.
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They wouldn't be the only ones. However, I feel most immigrants tend to be more qualified to vote than a majority of our natural born citizens. Rather sad.
 
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golfballs03 said:
particularly immigrants from communist countries. they know what's up.
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I know many immigrants from communist countries. They almost always truly appreciate our freedoms and economic system. They have lived through the bull**** communist reign. Yet, many of our natural born citizens who have never step foot in a communist country want the US to get there as fast as possible. Irony at its finest.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
I know many immigrants from communist countries. They almost always truly appreciate our freedoms and economic system. They have lived through the bull**** communist reign. Yet, many of our natural born citizens who have never step foot in a communist country want the US to get there as fast as possible. Irony at its finest.
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I went to college with someone who I think her parents were part of the aristocracy. She didn't even want to talk about communism, and I gleaned that she benefited from it.

She went off on somebody one time who asked her about what communism was like. "WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK ME THAT??" sort of thing.
 
#37
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It would be impossible to make a test that most people would consider fair and unbiased. Take a look at some of the old literacy test they used to make you take, some of them are very difficult.
 
#39
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Burhead said:
I've come to the point where I think we should mandate that everyone take an IQ test prior to voting in elections. Seriously, there are people on both sides that have no business whats so ever to be deciding the future of our country.
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No.

I would not mind having to get 6 out of 10 questions correct regarding official duties and responsibilities for each position one is casting a vote for, though.
 
#40
#40
I think so, because if the voters had a good IQ score, Ron Paul would be the next president of the Unites States
 
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#41
#41
Obama has a high IQ but is a terrible elected official - IQ testing would be irrelevant
 
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therealUT said:
No.

I would not mind having to get 6 out of 10 questions correct regarding official duties and responsibilities for each position one is casting a vote for, though.
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That would be difficult in a common wealth where every town and municipality has there own set up. Would force more of us to pay attention or more likely drop the voting percentage down to 1800 levels.
 
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