Incompetent Voters
Jonathan raises the fair point that trying to determine who is fit -- or unfit -- to vote would be a risky process ripe for abuse. That said, we also get abuse now. When I was in college, I worked part-time in a home for mentally handicapped adults. One year, one of the supervisors drove all the residents to the polling station, and told them they had to all vote for Candidate A, because if Candidate B won, their group home would be shut down.
Still, I suppose I'm with Jonathan: I prefer the imperfect system we have now of letting all non-felon adults, competent or otherwise, vote, to a system in which the politicians themselves decide who's worthy. But let's not kid ourselves -- especially amidst all the breathless talk about electronic voting machines, etc. -- there will never be a flawless voting system, and there will always be abuses. (By both sides, too.)
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