[EyeGuy]

Will the literacy tests be availiable in Eubonics?

[skeeter]

Male only voting isn’t going to win many converts... how about one vote per household, as defined by tax filing status, instead?

[Little Ray]

You know, of course, this means you are a racist who want disenfranchise America’s most helpless people, etc, etc, etc.

[Tx Angel]

There should def be a test — and only 3 questions are necessary.

1)Who is the current POTUS?
2)Who is the current VPOTUS?
3)Who is the current SOTH?

Few I’ve asked can answer all 3. Most only get #1.

[mick]

Good post. Well written. You are a brave man for bringing that issue up, FRiend.

[pnh102]

Restrict voting to net taxpayers only.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Bring Back Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

I lived in Mississippi when they had both. The poll taxes were not much $2 - $3 and the money was used to pay the poll workers. The literacy tests were very basic, probably at the 3rd grade level at the most and were just to see that the voter had some basic concept of government. Of course, The Federal Government declared this discriminatory and banned both. The average IQ of the electorate has been dropping ever since.

The result is an islamo-fascist usurper in The White House and a Congress headed by one of the stupidest women in the Country.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

if historical trends prevail, will lead us to socialism as it is practiced in most of Europe today.

European socialism as we know it only exists today because the United States prevents it from becoming full-blown, mass-murdering communism.

Once the U.S. (as we know it) disappears, the marxists have free reign to do whatever they want everywhere. The earth will be covered in blood.

European socialism, as bad as it is, is nothing compared to the real deal.

[ml/nj]

only property owning males who could read and write were permitted to vote in federal elections

While I agree with the sentiment, there are not now and there never have been any Federal elections.

ML/NJ

[La Lydia]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship."-- Alexander Fraser Tyler, "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"

[MeanWestTexan]

Democrats used them to hurt Republicans.

Expect the same to re-occur.

[trtdenver]

I agree. You shouldn’t get a vote unless you have paid at least $1 in income taxes. I have never understood that, but our founding fathers did. They knew we could keep the republic only as long as people didn’t figure out that they could vote themselves money/benefits from the national treasure. Voila! Now we have the great unwashed liberal drones voting in a block to “get mine”

[CholeraJoe]

Robert A. Heinlein had a good idea. Only Honorably discharged veterans may vote. I’m all for that. Here’s my DD214, sign me up.

[cayuga]

Repeal Amendment IX and raise the voting age to 30, to make it closer to what 21 used to represent.

[Hulka]

Bring back the poll tax and literacy test. . .heck, I’d be happy if they just limited voting to US citizens.