Competency tests before you can vote

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I think we need to repeal that amendment that says we can't have tests to see if people are qualified to vote.
Obviously some people in Florida are not qualified to vote. Not a hard test just a test to make sure that people can punch the hole they what to punch on the ballot. Is that to much to ask?

If you can't follow simple directions and punch the hold next to the name of the person you want to vote for. You really should be allowed to vote. That just my opinion


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People should also be required to pass tests before they have children and before they own guns. Both of these things can be dangerous in unqualified hands.
 
I have an easier solution. Instead of a test to vote how 'bout a test to hold political office.
It could be a simple test and read something like this:

"Do you agree to up hold the constitution of the United States of America?"

Just by couple a cents before this goes off to L&P. ;)

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Gunslinger

Missouri; Home to ballot fraud and dead senators. We're so proud.
 
The problem with repeal of the 24th Amendment is that it would reopen the system to the abuses which led to its passage.

And, after, all, if you screw up your ballot and then leave the booth/polling-place without correcting YOUR mistake, tough stuff. Your vote doesn't count; the ballot is tossed out.

It is the citizen's responsibility to deal with the voting process. Not the Candidate, nor the Party, nor Gummint.

Art
 
This is a one shot, Pass/Fail test. If you fail you are deported.

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The "voter competency test" used to be a test of reading skills in school. You all know the current problem with that. :)

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The first step is registration, the second step is confiscation, the final step is subjugation.
 
Deportation? What if the "voter" was born here? I've also known aliens who have a better command of the English language than some Americans.
 
Gunslinger.....

That's the same question that I sent to the editorial staff of the paper here in Las Cruces. They printed it too. Five days later, I received a pocket Constitution in the mail with the message - "A prize for a good article" I keep it handy now.
 
Apparently some Gore voters don't understand that our system only allows one president at a time...

Can you believe that they're going to challenge this in the courts? The ballot was confusing? What about "red means stop, green means go?" Can they figure that out, or do those lights at intersections just confuse them? Do they not understand that they can ask for a new ballot if they make a mistake in the booth? It makes me sick!

What's worse is that at the end of all this fiasco, Gore may well be the new president.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Deportation? What if the "voter" was born here? [/quote]

I wasn't trying to be racsist, or anything, we joke about "deporting" morons. I had originally wrote "will be deported to antartica" but then I though, what's it matter where we send them, as long as they go? I saw the ballots. they had arrows on them. Every one should know how arrows work. These symbols have been used for thousands of years. They have them on traffic signs. They have them on traffic lights. They have them painted on the road. They have them on ATM machines. They have them on bottle lids, Baby food jars, car locks, and voting ballots. Generally, why you see an arrow, you look that way, or go that way, or turn the lid that way, why is it so hard all of the sudden??? "We were mislead....we didn't understand...it was new...it was confusing...blah blah blah.." These people who screwed them up were idiots, and should be deported..uh, to someplace with less electoraal college votes :D
 
One day, at my former workplace, I did something really nasty. I
swapped the Milkshake and Sundae sides of our milkshake machine (the
really old craps worked nicely when EVERYTHING was on the wrong side
since parts were only required to fit to each other, they'd
automatically fit into one of the 'booths'). Oh well, I didn't expect
so few people to notice the sides were swapped. I actually lost count
of the number of milkshakes in sundae cups and sunades in paper cups,
but it was fun to watch.

To save my ass, I even put up a notice on the crew info board saying
the sides were swapped.

In English, Tamil, German and French. No way the employees working
that day could talk their way out. Not even my boss who had the late
shift. She also messed it up once. :)

Don't believe that people can read. Or use their eyes for that
instance.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BadMedicine:
Every one should know how arrows work. Generally, why you see an arrow, you look that way.......[/quote]

Yes, even Custer figured this out eventually!

Sorry......so sorry. All of this is finally getting to me. :o
 
Pretty simple ballot, see for yourself.

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If Gore loses and sues there is going to be trouble believe you me.

Shok

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[This message has been edited by Shok (edited November 09, 2000).]
 
I can't believe the number of people willing to shame themselves by standing in front of a nationally broadcast tv camera and basically say "I'm dumb as a brick and I voted wrong and you oughta let me try again."

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true story, a Union Gen. once said "Don't worry about those Rebs. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..SPLAT.
 
Aha! Now I understand the deportation concept. Ostracize some Floridans to CA where it won't make a difference. Gore would win in CA anyway but FL would swing in favor of Bush.
 
BadMedicine, I really don't think the penguin population in the South Pole deserves to have the detritus of American society dumped on their floes.

Remember, there's always Mars ... somebody has to colonize it right :D

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TexasVet - LOL
 
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