If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

https://lemmy.world/post/33504287

This should be mandatory. Cannot have mouth breathers vote for far right because they don’t like the colour of their neighbours’ skin.

This was basically the first Jim Crow law to stop black people from voting. I would love a more informed voting pool but this would 100% immediately be used to disenfranchise specific groups.

Just make the questions difficult for specific groups to know on average, or fill it full of trick questions with bad faith answers.

Perhaps the exam should have included a section on the history of civil rights and voting suppression in the United States.

Ah, yes: if you acknowledge it existed, you fail and can’t vote.

That’s what you had in mind, right? 'Cause that’s what would happen.