We accept a limitation on access to voting based on age. This has a hard, numerical boundary, and we can argue over what the boundary should be, but while a given age is in law it is simple and basically fair across all genders, races, cultures, languages, etc.
When you introduce a barrier like a literacy or knowledge test, you inherently restrict people from some or another culture, race, language, or whatever more than others. There is an inherent bias to how the test is written, presented, and judged. With all that wiggle room, people in power who want a certain outcome can see that the parameters of the test are arranged to fit their desires. There isn’t a version of this free from the potential for significant interference.
That, in a nutshell, is why there is always a strong argument against ANY such test as a requirement for voting. Some people may know better than others what policies will help people more, or at least think they do, but that doesn’t actually give them any more right than others in an equal democracy to make those choices.
I agree it is certainly easy for it to be manipulated in that way.
But.
This has to fucking stop. These morons will literally MURDER US ALL FOR PROFIT because they can convince the uneducated it would be funny. That’s not conducive to a functional society. If you let every single person vote no matter how braindead and out of touch with reality, this is what we get. Decades of manipulation and voting for the worst people imaginable to undermine every single institution that was built up through blood sweat and tears.
It was not as dangerous before the mass manipulation capabilities of big tech. Now it’s a cancer.
Republicans: “The literacy test is easy” The test: solve the following with proof of work The goat graising problem
This is the ‘reading literacy test’ for black people to go to school all over again, which for those unaware, had no answer key.
Just because a bunch of racists did it for racism doesnt mean no one else can try similar things for different reasons
I think that’s exactly what it means though. People are going to use it to put their thumbs on the scale for whatever reasons they want.
We accept a limitation on access to voting based on age. This has a hard, numerical boundary, and we can argue over what the boundary should be, but while a given age is in law it is simple and basically fair across all genders, races, cultures, languages, etc.
When you introduce a barrier like a literacy or knowledge test, you inherently restrict people from some or another culture, race, language, or whatever more than others. There is an inherent bias to how the test is written, presented, and judged. With all that wiggle room, people in power who want a certain outcome can see that the parameters of the test are arranged to fit their desires. There isn’t a version of this free from the potential for significant interference.
That, in a nutshell, is why there is always a strong argument against ANY such test as a requirement for voting. Some people may know better than others what policies will help people more, or at least think they do, but that doesn’t actually give them any more right than others in an equal democracy to make those choices.
I agree it is certainly easy for it to be manipulated in that way.
But.
This has to fucking stop. These morons will literally MURDER US ALL FOR PROFIT because they can convince the uneducated it would be funny. That’s not conducive to a functional society. If you let every single person vote no matter how braindead and out of touch with reality, this is what we get. Decades of manipulation and voting for the worst people imaginable to undermine every single institution that was built up through blood sweat and tears.
It was not as dangerous before the mass manipulation capabilities of big tech. Now it’s a cancer.