Well?
I think a good portion of our citizens would fail the test.
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I think a good portion of our citizens would fail the test.
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Should Citizens have to pass the basic Civics and Government test used for citizenship to Vote?
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Disparate outcome, so you’ll be labeled a racist for this proposal.
MAGA is supposedly made up of a bunch of idiots so I think the idea might have some allure for the folks that usually make that argument. We'll see.
No. Might as well go back to white, male landowners only, and quizzing voters how many jellybeans are in a jar before letting them vote.
How about some sort of common sense test?
I’ve seen a lot of book smart people that I question if they know head from butt.
I’ve seen a lot of book smart people that I question if they know head from butt.
Hmmm...a civics and government test is the equivalent of that? Seems like a stretch, but an expected stretch.
Well there is an issue that this country has a problem of having used tests in the past to prevent certain groups of people from voting.
Not necessarily but there are potential issues. The biggest is the constitution says that every citizen over 18 gets the right to vote. . . not every citizen who can pass a test gets the right to vote.
Immigrants would absolutely destroy American born people in this quiz.
An amendment is in order...anyone who couldn't pass that basic test has no business voting.
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HB Heisman
Before we go that far maybe we should start with requiring candidates to get at least a 90% to be eligible for office.
I am pretty sure Trump would outright fail and I suspect Biden would have trouble now too.
I would be more in favor of this. This get on the ballot you gotta be able the achieve a minimum score.
Not really if you study American history. The idea of civics tests is not new, and their inspiration is not to produce a better electorate, it's to produce a smaller electorate.
How about no Fox viewers being allowed to vote?
Absolutely! The Frau is going through the citizenship process and she's acing the test at this point.
It's not hard but like I said in the OP.....a lot of Americans would probably fail it.
If they're running for office...it should be a harder test IMO.
So you’re saying that you don’t think anyone but white males who own a home could pass the test.
Hey, that’s not misogynistic or racist at all.
Good job!
I’d agree that the ones that actually go through the US citizenship process would. But this is more memorizing certain things about America. They might know the things that are required for citizenship but nothing else.
However the immigrants that didn’t go through the US citizenship would fail miserably.
Doesn't seem like much of a "barrier" to me and would at least ensure voters have a basic knowledge of how the government works.
This would hurt the GOP way more. This would very disproportionately affect low income persons. While this would decrease some urban area votes, it’s not changing much in the political landscape because those areas have been gerrymandered into very blue districts. However, the rural south would have many districts flip red to blue.
Because rural Southerners are all dumb as posts, while corn farmers in BFE Iowa are really savvy.
Got it.
No, and it's an awful idea. However if the idea did somehow come to pass, it would likely lead to D sweeps everywhere based upon the educated vs uneducated breakdown in support of the parties. Maybe then we could finally get some actual democratic reforms passed, such as constitutional amendments to end gerrymandering and allow for open primaries and end federal judge lifetime appointments. You know stuff to fix the structural problems within our society which have allowed MAGA to breathe and grow as a minority movement.
What does your notion of the scale of the barrier have to do with what I said?
You’re right. The multi generational effort to dumb down students would be an enormous success.
Voting should be in person only except for deployed military and the use of fingerprint ID verification should be mandatory at the polls.
In theory, they have…….I believe in MOST states passing Civics/Government class is required to graduate from HS, perhaps even Jr. High…..
I got a dose of it in both places in my school days….a semester in each, I believe…..
I got a dose of it in both places in my school days….a semester in each, I believe…..
