They’re going to get their asses sued into oblivion. The problem is “their asses” is actually “the taxpayers” because these ghouls won’t be personally liable.
In order to vote, I think American voters should have to pass the same history test that immigrants need to in order to gain citizenship.
edit: This sits at +11 because Americans don’t know their history. We already did it to African Americans and it went extremely poorly. That’s the point: Pick up a book.
Give that test to everyone. It’s just basic reading comprehension with a simple logic question and a simple math question. Even just that would disenfranchise the vast majority of American voters.
My point wasn’t that a test is a good thing. It’s an incredibly horrible idea.
My point is that the vast majority of Americans know less of their history than their immigrants. And, the vast majority of Americans are now in favor of repeating one mistake or the other because they don’t know their history.
My evidence is that my suggestion above is predominantly upvoted.
I've taken and passed practice tests before. A lot of Americans who may be down-voting may remember things like Jim Crow laws and how tests were widely used to disenfranchise voters, particularly non-white or otherwise "the wrong kind of" voters, in the past and it still leaves a bad taste.
Jasper was beautiful. I hope they manage okay… and some rain would be amazing. More of our towns are going to be under threat as this trend continues. Hopefully everyone got out with their pets safely.
Feel for those ppl. I didn’t experience horrible stuff like other homeless have, thankfully. But I understand how crushing it is just finding yourself in that position in the first place.
How about we give parents one extra vote per child.
But they have to wait 18 years to use it.
And they can’t directly use it, it’s more that they get a delegate of sorts.
And this delegate — let’s call them, I dunno, their kid “offspring voter” — isn’t legally bound to vote one way or another.
And how about this person votes in a manner that in some way reflects how they were raised, and their worldy experiences — possibly voting exactly as the parents would, or possibly exactly opposite, or anywhere in between.
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