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Yes, but age and citizenship are easily met and entirely objective standards. A four year old doesn't have the intellectual capacity to understand the issues, and I recognize that there must be a proper age standard someplace.

While your reply to this may be that, of course, there are some mentally retarded people out there that meet the age and citizenship requirements that have the intellectual capacity of the average four-year old, my response to this is that:
a) the number of these people are so small in number simply to not make any statistical difference. Moreover, the percentage of these people that are both registered to vote and who actually vote is, no doubt, nearly zero.
b) Moreover, an IQ test is again a basically subjective examination. I'd rather run the risk that a few nitwits are voting than to allow the government to condition the right to vote on subjective means.

I recognize that voting rights can be stripped by a felony conviction. I feel this is unconstitutional and the government shouldn't have the power to do so.

Some of the feeble voters (elderly and retarded) are used as vote farms by the Democrats. There is some assistance that can be provided to voters. It is an unfair appropriation of these citizens' votes; they are exploited. Again, there is outrage from time to time but little is done to stop it.

Some states re-establish voting rights for felons after a period of time. I don't know that any state re-establishes second ammendment rights (right to bear arms) to any felon.

Which is a more serious violation of constitutional rights by the government?

The felony does not even have to be violent to lose gun rights. Ask G. Gordon Liddy. While Mr. Liddy cannot own firearms, Mrs. Liddy owns plenty of them (although she could probably be prosecuted for providing easy access to such prohibited items to Mr. Liddy).

I'd rather run the risk that a few nitwits are voting than to allow the government to condition the right to vote on subjective means.

And I'd rather not.
There is nothing subjective about a self check of the most elementary of facts about the mechanics of voting, the issues at hand and and the purpose for voting.

I hope your "openmindedness" and fear of losing something will overcome your need for competence if you ever need heart or brain surgery.