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Yes of course. That'll eliminate a lot of people who don't know why they're voting to begin with.
A test vote on what?
Look, we have already ruined the voting process by the popular "motor voter" laws and these so-called "provisional" ballots, we also have early voting and multiple voting locations along with absentee ballots. It is almost impossible to establish wether or not a provisional voter is actually a legal citizen of this country, and now in some cases those who do the ballot counting are instructed to determine (aka guess) the voter's intent if the ballot cannot be read. Ballots are now printed in a million different languages and voters who have graduated from high schools but who still cannot read can have someone actually read the ballot for them!
So now you want to have people vote more than once?
Looks like the Chicago style politics of "get out and vote, and vote often" is what you are asking for.
Oh, and by knowing how people will vote on a certain subject will allow that vote to be eliminated?
If that doesn't sound like the epitome of communism, nothing will.
Maybe I need new glasses, but I could have sworn yesterday that this debate subject first read "should there be a test vote" instead of what I just read "should there be a test to vote" . . . I guess I can blame it on all this gray hair, lol.
Who don't know why they're voting? I'm pretty sure most people actually have a pretty good idea "why". Whether or not that why is based upon rational expectations or realistic assessments of their political choices is perhaps a separate issue…
Which thus begs the question, why should we be interested in determining this? Or who should be allowed to determine such things, if anyone? I'd have to say that given the history of using voting tests to exclude "undesirable" minorities from voting at all, I'd rather stay pretty far away from this.
Of course. The test should be a single question, "Are you likely to vote for the person I want you to vote for?" I'll administer the test, and everyone who doesn't pass can stay home.