Earning the Vote

[The Architect Of Fate]

You don't think IQ tests have any fair correlation with GI?

I don't think intelligence should decided ones right to vote. It's disturbingly plutocratic and has some Eugenicist undertones.

And you don't think some level of education increases the chance of making you better able to understand the issues you are voting upon, and less likely to be subject to manipulation?

The goal should be to increase education not exclude people due to a lack of it The idea uneducated and unintelligible people shouldn't be allowed to vote i think goes against the egalitarian spirit of democracy. 

As for seeing civic service as slavery, what if it was optional (but not service, no vote)?

People should have to serve the state to vote in it. 

Why 16? (not 18, 21, or 13 etc)

We seem to give a lot of other responsibilities at 16 why not the right to vote ? 

And when you say living in a nation, doesn't that possibly increase the risk of foreign interference via immigration/emigration?

On this we agree