Whose voting privileges would you like to revoke?

[Travel'r]

Bud Selig and his band of merry morons. Lets deport him somewhere while we're at it.

(This makes more sense than listing black people, renters ... and homo'als on this poll!)

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by ElizNJ

I would take away voter privilege from the 18-20 age group, with the exception of those in the military. I don't feel as though those in this age group have the life experience necessary to make an informed choice.

Hmm. Then maybe we should ban people with Alzheimer's Disease or those who are senile. How can they make an informed choice if they can't even remember their own names?

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

Hmm. Then maybe we should ban people with Alzheimer's Disease or those who are senile. How can they make an informed choice if they can't even remember their own names?

That would silence the Senate

[Workin_Hard]

Originally Posted by idahogie

Bull. You make an arbitrary standard - language - as your measure of commitment to this country. That's been tried before using other idiotic measures - money, land ownership, ancestry. It was stupid and wrong back then, and you're doing the same thing now. Judging a whole class of people based on your stereotype. It's disgusting.

I'm glad there is no bird emoticon - it would reduce your comment to a pile of stupidity with an obscene gesture at the end.

While you seem to choose to "celebrate" diversity, focusing on what makes each "unique" and "special" while ignoring common factors which should be used to draw us together as citizens of a unified nation? This silly idea of "multiculturalism" is what has the US population at such odds with itself. If we can't have a language in common, then what else could bind us? I stand by my vote - if you can't speak the lingua franca (the vehicular language) of our nation, then no vote. Speaking English in and of itself is not a measure of commitment, but it is a sign of wanting to be a communicating, informed member of our society able to interact with others in a meaningful way.

Case in point. I was at DMV awhile back. Two Asian women in front of me at the counter. One was arguing heatedly that the second needed her written driving test to be provided in Chinese. The clerk repeatedly told her it was not available. The woman got more and more upset. Finally the clerk said "Listen, when she's driving, the road signs aren't in Chinese! If she can't read English well enough to pass the test, she shouldn't be driving on our roads! Next!" Doesn't this same principal apply to voting?

And if you're seeking to amuse yourself by finding stupidity, you really don't need to look past your own keyboard. <Tweet-tweet>

[djacques]

Originally Posted by mackinac81

If there was a way to do it, I'd revoke people who couldn't pass a basic civics test, but (sigh) there'd be no way to really do it fairly. Oh well.

Sure there is. Have a mandatory civics course in the senior year of high school, followed by a standardized test.