Should People With Low IQ's Be Allowed To Vote?

kabayiri

Scotland should be allowed to pilot the idea first, after they have raised anchor and sailed away from mothership rUK of course.

Alex Salmond might be worried about leading a party and not being able to vote though.

A._Badger

I do wonder if they should be allowed to start endless threads...

Mr._Pricklepants

Everybody should be allowed to vote, even that Graham_Devon bloke.

MacMickster

kabayiri wrote: »

Scotland should be allowed to pilot the idea first, after they have raised anchor and sailed away from mothership UK of course.

Alex Salmond might be worried about leading a party and not being able to vote though.

Should the Scots vote in 2014 to break the union, then they won't have any vote on any UK matters thereafter. They will have effectively demonstrated their collective IQ and self-excluded themselves from our EU referendum.

Of course the Scots will be able to concern themselves about gaing entry to the EU, possibly at the cost of adopting the Euro.

kabayiri

How many of us here have done that classic training course exercise.

The one where you are set an exercise on your own, then you repeat it as part of a group. Invariably the results are better when in the group.

Perhaps the same principle applies to a large family of low IQ voters , or a group who work together.

IQ pooling Coming to a town near you.

Sampong

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

Everybody should be allowed to vote, even that Graham_Devon bloke.

I don't mind Graham_Devon voting, but the EU would like to force us to give Prsoners the vote, one more reason to distance ourselves from the United States of Europe.

nollag2006

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Democracy is the least bad system we've tried so far, but it's far from perfect.

As 50% of the population have an IQ of 100 or less, and such people are essentially incapable of comprehending some of the more complex issues facing society, particularly issues where the evidence supports a counter-intuitive conclusion, wouldn't it be better if passing an IQ test above a certain threshold was a prerequisite for voting?

Or is it the case that we should continue to rely on Politicians being able to dumb down debate so that a majority of voters can understand, even though this leads to the nuances and subtleties of important issues being lost, and encourages partisan conflict and 'rabble rousing' styles of communication?

Both Devon and twit1234 are given a vote, which probably explains why the country is in the mess we are in

PaulF81

Its less than 100 years ago that oxbridge and durham graduates (plus dons) had 2 votes. Cant see too many problems in this, nor the requirement to "earn" your vote, either through work, or lack of criminal conviction, or military service. Or being a graduate without a criminal record.

Either way, Labour, who are voted in by degenerates, the lazy and criminals, would be screwed politically.

Pobby

Yet another prattish post by McT. I prefer it when you are ranting on about house prices going up. A lot more funny than demonising folk.

vivatifosi

Surely, if people aren't bright enough to vote, they are not bright enough to put a cross in a box without crossing the lines either?