Voter quiz?

i dont think just anyone who is of age should be able to vote. i think there should be some kind of candidate quiz, most people dont really know what their candidate stands for. i know its not the american thing, but too many people vote against someone not for someone. does anyone agree or any other ideas?

Voter quiz?

No. It won't work. Age %26amp; citizenship limitations are enough. Education should be stongly encouraged, but it would be impossible to enforce mandate..

Voter quiz?

We all have the right to vote, and that is as it should be.

Voter quiz?

That'll never happen. Remember the 19th amendment changed that.

Voter quiz?

There would be no way to prevent the quiz from being partisan. Everyone has the right to vote and that's the way it should be.

Voter quiz?

I agree in theory - that the electorate should pass some kind of civics quiz - but it's nearly impossible to implement in practice. I believe that you should know how your government works if you intend to participate in it.

However, several problems come to mind. There's no constitutional justification for such a thing. Who would write the test questions, and who would administer it? How could we be certain that these entities were impartial? And the list goes on...

But in theory, not a bad idea.

Voter quiz?

That is the job of the media, rather than gossip about the candidates they need to be repetitiously teaching the differences..similarities..... in views.....

Voter quiz?

1) Who was Truman's VP?

2) Who was Washington's VP

3) Who was Gerald Ford's VP

yeah, this could be great fun.

Voter quiz?

lack of education maybe the damnation of this country.

Voter quiz?

I think a test or anything else that you need in order to vote is a very slippery slope. Once we start added additional requirements for the right to vote other than a united states citizen and over the age of 18, what is to stop us from slowly returning to poll taxes or reading tests? It could be used to silence people in society. I do not believe the average American voter is informed and it scares me to believe that they are in control of the country, but there is no better way. Candidate quizzes or anything like that will be inherently bias and inherently silence some sect of the American public. This is a very slippery slope and not the answer.

Voter quiz?

Once you begin to try to restrict eligibility to vote based on a person's level of knowledge, you open a can of worms. Who gets to decide what the base level of knowledge should be? How to you assess what level of knowledge a potential voter has? Does a person need to be retested each election cycle?

Also, the group in charge of setting the standards has a lot of power to suppress the eligibility of people they don't like.

Voter quiz?

i don't think most americans would pass that quiz. most voted for bush. at one time 90% of them supported bush.

blacks knew much quicker than whites that bush was incompetent. hmmmm? blacks must be smarter than whites then.