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To: stormer
The founding fathers didn't believe that every Tom Dick and Harry should vote -- there were eligibility requirements.

Voting is not an inalienable right.

6 posted on 10/20/2013 8:04:58 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

I think you need to have skin in the game.


12 posted on 10/20/2013 8:11:22 PM PDT by DirtyPigpen (Semper Fi)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“The founding fathers didn’t believe that every Tom Dick and Harry should vote — there were eligibility requirements. “

I’d say, right off the top, they were about at least 50% more restrictive...

I don’t see what was wrong with testing requirements. Certainly, an understanding of government, local and national should be required. You might say that public schooling should do this, and I would just laugh. And the test should be periodic and available in English only.

These days, I don’t think we are too far away from Africa, where they put a photo of the candidate with the symbol of the party on the ballot. For example, here, we would have put a drawing of an ass next to a photo of every Democrat.


24 posted on 10/20/2013 8:21:44 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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