Anonymous #2 1d

Not the best solution, but ever-changing IQ tests to qualify as a voter and set a baseline like 110/120. Bundle them with driver’s license tests or something. We may need to make people retake them every few years. 100% optional, but you would need to qualify to vote.

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Anonymous OP 1d

oh but we’re against photo ID to vote 🫩make it make sense

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Anonymous OP 1d

Lmao, no. IQ tests are not a reliable depiction of someone's actual intelligence. It's been proven over and over.

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Anonymous #2 1d

Correct, but better than having nothing like the “anything goes” we do now. As more discoveries are made, we can implement those tests.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Putting restrictions like that only invites corruption. What starts as a limit of 100 or 110 eventually becomes 120, then 130, and eventually the limit is 200 and, miraculously, the rich and powerful all manage to score highly (by paying for it of course) and leave everyone else unrepresented.

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Anonymous #2 1d

That was just an idea; there could be others. With advances in technology, tests can be made fair, and scores stored on distributed ledgers, for example. Yes, there may still be corruption; it can be reduced, not eliminated. Also, representation for “everyone” and not “all qualified people” is the root cause. We cannot use the lowest common denominator as a benchmark.

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Anonymous OP 1d

But basing someone's ability to vote on a subjective quality is inherently unfair. Qualifications like "American citizen" or "18 or older" are objective, as in you are definitively one or the other. There's no opinion on whether or not someone is 18 or older or a citizen, just the fact that they are (or aren't). Subjective qualities like intelligence are not a good reference point because there is so much gray area there. Someone who's smart to me might be stupid to you, for example.

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Anonymous #2 1d

You can try and make intelligence an objective fact, but at the end of the day we will never be able to obtain a reliable, numerical indicator of intelligence that truly represents all factors of somebody's mind. It's simply not possible.

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