White House Suggests Reinstating Literacy Requirements for Voting Damn. Ironically, as a librarian, I see far too many people making important decisions [for themselves as well as others] without a reasonable level of literacy [and other tools, to say the least]. I do believe that it would be ideal to have some sort of competency before they start making decisions like who's in charge [this is the inherent problem with democracy], but even disregarding any indirect systematic denial of rights [such as "poor people have low literacy" therefore "poor people won't be able to vote"], there would still be no way to easily and objectively tell who's competent and who's not. Just because you can't read doesn't mean you can't decide well, even if that may be the general case.
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