alyaza [they/she]M to AskBeehaw@beehaw.orgEnglish • 13 days agoit's election season, Beehaw, so — what are your thoughts on compulsory (mandatory) voting?message-square60fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareit's election season, Beehaw, so — what are your thoughts on compulsory (mandatory) voting?alyaza [they/she]M to AskBeehaw@beehaw.orgEnglish • 13 days agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-text
good idea/bad idea, necessary democratic reform or authoritarian imposition? are there better or worse ways to do it?
minus-square@Linktanklink1•edit-213 days agoMandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test. Nobody else is allowed to vote.
minus-squarealyaza [they/she]OPMlinkfedilink13•13 days ago for people who have passed a morality test i don’t see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is “moral” is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable
minus-square@CameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilink12•13 days agoYou really don’t want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.
minus-square@Linktanklink1•13 days agoYeah because there’s definitely no voter suppression going on already. Let’s make sure the dregs of society can share their dumbass opinions when things come to a general vote.
minus-squareDark ArclinkfedilinkEnglish8•13 days agoThat’s a false equivalence. Building up society as a whole is better than trying to determine “the most relevant” voices.
minus-squareZagorathlinkfedilink5•13 days agoI suspect the people who would set this test would be the exact opposite of the people you want to set this test, in more than 50% of the seats.
Mandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test.
Nobody else is allowed to vote.
i don’t see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is “moral” is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable
You really don’t want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.
Yeah because there’s definitely no voter suppression going on already. Let’s make sure the dregs of society can share their dumbass opinions when things come to a general vote.
That’s a false equivalence. Building up society as a whole is better than trying to determine “the most relevant” voices.
I suspect the people who would set this test would be the exact opposite of the people you want to set this test, in more than 50% of the seats.
Oh, and a tax