The Right To Vote- How Should You Get It?

[tatsxxx11]

You said it best yourself, 2 kitties. To whose standards, to what criteria should we defer in deciding who and who is not worthy of the vote? There in lies the rub! Seems to me, in our own not too recent past, attempts HAVE been made to create an arabitrary, artifical, "standard" (e.g. a poll tax) that would overtly or implictly, grant or rather, not grant, certain individuals the vote. Such criteria would, at different times, deny individuals the vote based upon race, sex, status or level of "education." Some of the most frightenging opinions I have heard expressed in my lifetime have been expressed by those with an abundance of "education," while those whose opinons I have most respected, could barely write their names. Our system is inbuded with an abundance of checks and balances and I believe in the end, serves us best in this regard. Those who are motivated enough to register and get themselves to a polling district to cast their votes, have earned the right in my book. As far as I'm concerend, no further intervention needed