tommyg wrote:I think there should be a simple test before you can be able to vote. Questions should include very simple things like, "Who has the majority in the House?", "Who has the majority in the Senate?", etc. There's a really good documentary called "Media Malpractice" and at the end it showed a lot of exit interviews of people who just voted in 2008 and they couldn't answer the most basic questions.
Nope. Can't do it. Requiring voters to pass any sort of test would be
racially discriminatory, especially if it were a written test.
You can thank LBJ and his Democratic Congress for doing away with basic
literacy tests. I understand that requiring voters to be literate and to know a few simple facts about government seems to be plain common sense to you and me, but common sense does not apply in today's America.