Notes for Now, Some Dramatic Essay Later ......
We should have voter testing like we have motor testing and the tragic mistake of the founders to not include a law mandating testing of all would be voters, do not have to be repeated. They are both methods for the community to know users of cars and democracies each have a minimal standard of knowledge to use their privileges safely and not hurt others.
Carried over from;
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
World literacy rates:
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy#literacy-around-the-world-today
#VoteTesting and #TesttoVote Hashtags on End All Suffering:
https://twitter.com/search?q=(%23testtovote%20OR%20%23votertesting)%20(from%3Aendallsuffering)%20until%3A2021-11-15%20since%3A2020-09-01&src=typed_query
They are S SHALLOW they liked Donald Trump for what he appears to be, an angry and victimized white male; and what they think he is, a self made billionaire.
The MAGA’s should be tested in order to vote, and you too.
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TWEET
On #TestToVote / #VoterTesting
WE DISRESPECT the #democracy PROCESS and WE CHEAPEN ITS MEANING BY NOT DEMANDING a COMMUNITY STANDARD BE APPLIED TO ALL, because like DRIVING a motor vehicle, VOTERS CAN also be RESPONSIBLE for DESTROYING LIVES.
Voting is a dangerous privilege.ðŸ˜
LINK
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
Hashtag link:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TestToVote?src=hashtag_click
Meme notes
10.8
#TESTtoVOTE now , #VoterTestingNow for Gosh sake!
The DUMBEST voters EVER, recorded thanks to the Daily Show and Jordan Klepper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVx8gCAF3D8
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12.8.2021
Reminds; We must move to #VoterTesting / #TestToVote as soon as the next election. It's supposed to be an intellectual process, not some headcount race. We test ourselves to death in every aspect of life that is important, but we treat #democracy like shit. Taking voting for granted.
One Liners ……
If you let the small number of stupid people in the population vote, just for being at least 18-years-old and breathing when the vote is cast, you will eventually see a small number of STUPID GOVERNMENT decisions.
If immediately noticed and fixed with voter testing, the dumb government would take about 18-years to begin to be corrected as 36-year-olds enter Congress.
If you let a particular number of stupid people in the population vote, just for being at least 18-years-old and breathing when the vote is cast, you will eventually see a correlating number of STUPID GOVERNMENT decisions.
#MAGAts will soon enter government!
#VOTERTesting !
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If representative #democracy is supposed to work well with everybody #voting, why don’t we allow kids to?
We fear most won’t have enough knowledge of our history, civics, and current events.
Good thing the Framers wrote an age restriction.
#TestToVote
JamesGMason.com
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The USA is #suffering from lazy democracy.
We want things and activities to be fast and easy. We quickly judge an inconvenience to our time and effort as negative. In government, believing all persons should be #voting fast and easy before any test of knowledge is an example.
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Is an adult person that was born with half a brain allowed to live? Without pause, yes.
Are they allowed to vote? Yes, but only after they are proven to be eighteen and alive.
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On #January6th one of the treasonous mob answered they were there to prevent Nancy Pelosi's Satanist Pedophiles from taking over the government.
Another proudly boasted the Capitol was the White House.
Not one asked of another "Where did you get your information?"
It was the LEAST WELL INFORMED mob since
since a fire at a biker bar.
#TESTtoVote
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#votingRights
245-YEARS and NO civil right to #vote.
What happened
There was NEVER supposed to be a civil right to vote, just for being alive and 18-years-old.
ANY IDIOT CAN VOTE and that's a DANGEROUS privilege only reasoning people should have.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE:
Good one?
Can you breathe and are 18?
Moron celebrity egomaniacs want your vote.
Yes you can!
Easy voting!
The more the merrier! 😃
Sign up by the busload!
Sign up at Walmart!
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It's time to evolve to the next tier of representative governing, a reliable and consistent pool of tested voters.
Probably a few hundred thousand in a small state, instead of millions - hordes!
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
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#Democracy by #representation improves because political news junkie neighbors of every community, who take the VRT every 4-years, make election decisions on issues that have been difficult for all to keep up with.
They represent, and WE KNOW they care.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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While being 18-years-old and breathing is the only requirement to be a voter, the process will have nothing to do with creating or keeping wise or ethical government.
Smart democratic representation can begin with a reliable large pool of voters that have passed the Voter Registration Test and can be trusted to know a minimum community standard of facts.
Edit
While being apelike, 18 and breathing is the requirement to be a voter, the process does little to ensure wise government.
It's time for smarter representation that begins with voters that have passed the VRT and can be trusted to know a minimum standard of facts.
#VoterTesting
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NOT IN
In the late 18th-century #democracy was new.
More than 90% of citizens could not read, and there was no objective and accurate way to qualify reasonably intelligent voters; the States can do it.
Voting access was restricted to white men, landowners, and merchants.
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#votingRights?
Can you breathe and are 18?
Moron celebrity egomaniac billionaires want your vote, and they'll get it.
Americans are lazy voters and can be easily fooled.
Most show up and vote party down-the-line, having done no homework.
If it bothers you I want you to have to study, you’re why I say #TESTtoVOTE and save smart self government.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TestToVote?src=hashtag_click
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Not published on blog
8.6
#Voting is fundamental to self-government, but voting activists must change paths, from collecting a headcount for elections, because an informed voter must be a crucial priority or #democracy will collapse from ignorant hordes.
January 6th 2021, it almost did.
#TESTtoVOTE
If #Democrats had not been busy collecting any head to win a voting numbers contest, the shitty ideas #Republicans would NOT have been busy making it HARDER to vote!
And, what the fuck evidence says EASIER voting makes better government!??
WTF is the goal! JAMESGMASON.com
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“Amazingly enough we do not have in our Constitution the right to vote as a Constitutional right, we leave it up to the states … That’s where I get passionately upset.” - Bernie Sanders, 2016
https://fusion.tv/story/229051/bernie-sanders-voter-registration-democratic-forum/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialshare&utm_content=theme_top
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Are you accusing me of being a racist?
A Bolshevik?
A voter registration test of history, civics, and current events is in no way discriminating of race, sex, or class or any identity.
Sir.
You might fail the #TestToVote, in which case you can study and return to it.
https://twitter.com/CarlAntoine/status/1385933929383972868?s=20
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Tweeted:
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3. " #VotingRights "
#TestToVote
PLEASE BE CAREFUL?
#VOTING is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE;
“Amazingly enough we do not have in our Constitution the right to vote ... we leave it up to the states … That’s where I get passionately upset.”
- @BernieSanders
http://JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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#TestToVote
" #VotingRights "
PLEASE BE CAREFUL?
#VOTING is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE.
“Amazingly enough we do not have in our Constitution the right to vote ... we leave it up to the states … That’s where I get passionately upset.”
- Bernie Sanders
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
In off-year elections, party voters don't have to do ANY HOMEWORK. WTF!
Take #VOTING seriously.
It's a privilege and AN HONOR.
In my past profession I was tested repeatedly to INSTALL TOILETS.
Isn't the United States WORTH MORE?
#TESTtoVOTE
http://JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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11.30.2021
In addition to smarter government, #VoterTesting / #TestToVote will be a roadblock for alternative news believers. Along with American history and civics, the current events section should be 1/3rd of the test weight, containing several recent news and politics questions.
JamesGMason.com
Governors; and CHEAP!
To keep costs of #voterTesting low, citizens can go to a rented trailer next to their Department of Motor Vehicles to take their Voter Registration Tests; it's where most went to take tests for a driver's license.
It's wise #democracy that matters.
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WE CAN AGREE in self-governed societies like ours; it’s a matter of public safety that voters make choices based on logic and demonstrate before voting, they are capable of doing so.
To imply we aren’t capable of that is an Un-American insult.
It should be a priority goal. A smarter citizen operated government is possible if we address the beginning of the process, the choices of the voters and who they are.
logic of #VoterTesting / #TestToVote .
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As a citizen aware of the privilege and the honor of participating in self-government, there would have to be a TON of INCONVENIENCE to cause me to skip an election.
To save #democracy, I want others who share this attitude to comprise a steady pool of voters we can count on for a new tier of representation.
Tweet:
#Voting
#TESTtoVOTE |
"#votingRights"
As a citizen aware of the honor and privilege of participating, there would have to be a TON of INCONVENIENCE to cause me to skip an election.
For safety, to save #democracy, it is time for a pool of tested voters.
JamesGMason.com
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#VotingRight
Ego driven celebrity candidates can get American voters to give them a 20% advantage at the start.
How is that fair to the better qualified who are prepared to be representatives?
It's reckless, careless and dangerous.
#TestToVote = caring and considerate voters
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This will FINALLY TURN-the-TABLES on the #VoterSupression ASSHOLES that have been restricting ALL CONVENIENCE to the polls
Legislators shy from #TestToVote, because it WAS used to eliminate ILLITERATE people.
Now, 99% of adults read.
And this can be an audio test, and online.
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It used to be true that a group of activist persons could win over the majority by using the media.
Several signers of the US Constitution were full or part owners of printing presses.
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I have a logical fear of hordes of poorly informed electing demagogues who destroy the #USA.
Requiring a test of history, civics, and current events is not discriminatory of race or sex, or ethnicity.
It's USC passable; a State can enact #TestToVote.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
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#voting
Tried and true; when you let animals vote, they will only vote for the food coming through the chute managed by the animal study scientist.
If any animal 18 and older can vote, they'll look for the ANIMAL ISSUES and believe ANYTHING.
#TESTtoVOTE; We are NOT ANIMALS.
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#voting
Tried and true; when you let animals vote, they will only vote for the food coming through the chute managed by the animal study scientist.
If any animal 18 and older can vote, they'll look for the ANIMAL ISSUES and believe ANYTHING.
#TESTtoVOTE; We are NOT ANIMALS.
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#Voting
It's a CRISIS of IGNORANCE.
Denial is a RIVER through the USA, that’s population can't accept you're supposed to be WELL INFORMED to vote, not just ALIVE and 18.
Or DO NOT participate in the PRIVILEGE.
JamesGMason.com: ANSWERS; NOT FUCKING AROUND in denial. ðŸ˜
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#votingRights ? No.
I don't want people voting as if helping their favorite sports team across the goal.
I want only vetted jurists voting.
This country is worth it.
The USA began with the understanding that voting access WOULD be DISCRIMINATE against those NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE.
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Person’s right hand holding a pencil, its tip touching a blank area of the test sheet near a test question.
2 or three questions, the first on top; American history …., the next; current events question; can be trivia type regarding a hot issue.
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Grammarly EDITING BEGIN:
I have a rational fear of masses of dumb people electing horrible candidates who destroy what I love of the United States of America.
After Bush, Trump, and Brexit, it's a good time to discuss an idea that's time may have come: voter testing. Please, let that ring, as uncomfortable as it may seem until you get used to the idea because it's imperative for the survival of this republic as a self-governed and free nation?
Requiring a test to indicate essential knowledge is not discriminatory of race or sex, or ethnicity and can only improve this republic toward fairness and better representation.
It is consistent with democracy and improving its trustworthiness.
It will be another tier of representation; like Congress itself, it will be a form of local representation by your neighbors, family, or friends.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 89) ". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right."
- Thomas Jefferson
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Please take voting seriously?
It's a privilege and an honor, and I am grateful.
When people vote frivolously or carelessly, following a perceived community standard or believing in falsehoods or a candidate’s promises, we get poor government, and horrific behavior and mistakes are more likely.
In my past profession, I was tested repeatedly to install plumbing and heating to indicate to my community that I would not negligently explode a city block or poison the water, or blow up a house.
When I drive on the highway, I take comfort knowing those around me have been tested for limitations in their knowledge and bodies.
Is not the United States is worth providing at least that much safety?
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There is no “right to vote” in the USA, as a guarantee in the Constitution, as a promise that any adult with a pulse must be allowed to decide the future of a complex nation.
The Framers thought that would be ridiculous.
After Trump, so do I.
#votingRight
In Heaven everybody votes.
But, God and the Angels have veto power over everything, so it’s really only symbolic and feels good.
IMAGINE, you could #vote by picking up your smartphone and spending 5-minutes.
Equal conveniences to access voting are EXCELLENT, after your community has an indication that you Know What-the-Fuck you are doing.
Reasonable?
Test to vote?
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#VotingRights:
If you are a political pundit or a politician (viewed or read and or respected by many) and go about stating that Americans have a "right to vote," then poorly informed people will use it. Rights get taken for granted and abused. It's a privilege to vote; the Framers knew it and wanted it to remain so.
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A literacy test?
In 1780, at most, 95% of the public could not read more than their first and last name.
In the two centuries following those figures improved dramatically.
Today, less than 5% of the public will reach adulthood and be illiterate.
We know what Jim Crow laws were, we fully expect voter registration testing to be created for equality, as all government services are supposed to be.
As the Fifteenth Amendment clearly dictates of the Federal government; equality is a right, not voting.
A well-informed voter is foundational if the self-government is to work, be trusted, and be fairer to all.
A smart idea.
It can turn the tables on voter suppression where voters' masses have become a competitive goal on partisan sides.
Imagine a pool of steady voters, each passionate and curious, and passing the voter registration test before every general election.
Like tested and licensed drivers, they can steer on the highways of representation to not crash into other people.
Reminder, there is no federally protected, or documented, universal right to vote in the United States. There is a law that defends equality to access.
Consistent with democracy and improving its trustworthiness.
We can all read.
Voting is fundamental to self-government, but there is no federal law that guarantees a citizen a right to vote. There is a law (Amendment 15) that protects equality of access to the polls, and in that manner, it can be called a "right to equality of voting." It's a privilege to vote.
An informed voter is necessary to the effectiveness and stability of any democracy, or they fall apart, collapsing from the ignorant hordes.
Hordes of the poorly informed incited by the most ignorant
president in US history, on January 6th 2021.
Had Trump's voters been required to take a quiz to become a registered voter, they would not have existed.
We abused the First Amendment, we lost control of truth.
Americans don't have to allow people to vote, who don't care enough to study to discover the truth.
We can't afford the LOW INFORMATION voter.
Democracy is FAILING; it's no longer about MASSES of VOTERS because proper representation requires well informed voters, not hundreds of millions of people too busy to find the truth who live in a divided news media environment.
Understand? Geez
The challenging future will require a reliable body of esteemed tested voters, not millions too busy to understand the complexities of issues.
After Bush, Trump, and Brexit, it's an excellent time to discuss an idea that's time must come.
Because, the low information voter does not have to be here-to-stay. Let them get on with their lives, that are apparently more important than giving thought time to serious issues of the day.
Trump, Brexit, right? C'mon!?
If the nation had voter testing, of history, civics and current events, to become eligible, the numbers would be no less small, and they'd be knowledgeable voters that can't be fooled.
Having a pool of tested voters is a needed next tier of representation.
It is not like there won't be a lot of voters, all representing all needs of all people.
We want the tests to be welcoming and passable. It's who the voter is that's important. Someone who cares enough to keep-up and know their civics, history, and current events.
Our democratic representation creates a pyramidal structure, and adding a pool of tested registered voters is a logical adaptation to our new large population of very busy people:
Imagine that after voter testing is the normal way to register to vote, that 20% of today’s numbers will be participating at that time, but those numbers will be persistent or greater - to be counted on as consistently there, for all candidates to focus on their opinions. That of knowledgeable people who care enough. Testing should not be designed to fail participants. The great majority should be able to pass the voter test.
What citizens need are those who want to be part of democracy, enough to find the truth and pass the test.
This picture is a good example of that danger:
If we #TestVoters, we will more likely have an electorate who know the truth of current events, history, and civics.
They could be counted on as a consistent number who would vote in a natural disaster.
#Voting is a regulated privilege of those who participate in #democracy and is not a "right."
If we #TestVoters, we will more likely have an electorate who know the truth of current events, history, and civics, as they would be naturally curious information readers.
They could be counted on as a consistent number of voters who will vote in a natural disaster.
After colonists defeated the British, they had gained the ability to vote when they could not have under the monarchy.
The Framers never created a birthright or citizen's guarantee to vote.
States can regulate and restrict access to the polls because the Framers wanted the government to have the freedom to discriminate.
But it has to be done Equally.
Don't confuse rights with your privilege to vote; i.e. you cannot be discriminated against in the process for reasons of race or sex.
A tested voter should get free stuff from city and state governments and a lot of local discounts.
They should get an annual check from the IRS, of $100. Keeps the numbers of them higher.
Or, vote at the time you test to vote, after you've passed your test.
Notes more
It's not "voting rights," it's voting equality rights; of access to the process that is a privilege, that is the Constitutional "right" of the States to regulate and to restrict.
After colonists defeated the British, they had gained the ability to vote when they could not have under the monarchy.
The Framers never created a birthright or citizen's guarantee to vote.
States can regulate and restrict access to the polls because the Framers wanted the government to have the freedom to discriminate.
But it has to be done Equally.
If Everyone Voted ……
Accepted as true in liberal US politics is, IF the scenario could be true that EVERYONE voted, the Democratic Party would win is logical IF a majority (even tiny) of ALL did their homework, even a sliver, and EVERYONE voted - a fantasy.
#TESTtoVOTE Quality not Quantity
of an administration to launch the Iraq war.
Trusting The News Today;
With misinformation widely allowed, #voting can be as dangerous as driving a heavy vehicle in a city. If you don't have proper knowledge and ability you are probably going to hurt yourself and others, and be costly.
Voter testing locations should all have great catering with booze. After all, testers are registered voters are honored citizens.
In the future, an answer is advocacy for creation of #VoterTesting, for all lovers of country who keep up w/truth, to have the privilege of running democracy.
You could be sure an apocalyptic event would not stop a tested voter from reaching the polling place or voting online or by mail. By taking the test and passing to become eligible, they have shown great enthusiasm for participation.
Here’s an idea, in conjunction with testing, voting at the time of the test; you choose your candidates and other choices, and then you proceed to take the test. You place your test into a Scantron form that can quickly give you your result, and if you pass the test, your vote gets registered.
In my State there were 248K citizens who voted in a recent primary, of 2.2M eligible (old enough) voters.
While the nation waits for thousands of polling places and assembly of millions of mail-in ballots, published exit polls, inferring winners and losers, will inspire great anxiety, and outbreaks of violence and riots.
Test to vote concept creates a reliable pool of active voters, must like jurists are selected and maintained for trials.
The division of both truth and political bent will be here to stay in societies with freely published media; news distributions outlets that can't be taken away, and can allow biases affect their presentation of truth.
We have abused the Frist Amendment.
We have feared regulating our information.
We must see the necessity of maintaining a fully informed electorate as important as keeping a standing army.
If we #TestVoters, we will more likely have an electorate who know the truth of current events, history, and civics, as naturally curious information readers.
Less likely will be millions of misdirected voters, as we see today, everywhere.
I would include voter testing clause within Amendment 28, Public Campaign Financing.
I want every voter to be proud and feel honored, and not to have the feeling of a granted right, that can be un-appreciated in its use, sometimes far too casually "Let's give him a try, why not!?" Laze-fare voter participation.
We use democracy to run the testing component of voter registration.
A council of elected, term serving elders and their staff keep track of the truth, and agree on all test questions. They are accountable. Not like Fox News.
Below; pardon my humor, but you get the point.
If you were to slack-off of your news reading habit, for just a few months, you might fail the current events questions in the Voter Registration Test, and then you must wait until the next General.
The well informed voter is fundamental to good democracy.
We're learning this lesson the hard way.
All rights reserved; James Gray Mason, 2020.
https://JamesGrayMason.com
COMBINE this idea with http://PUBLIC-CAMPAIGN-FINANCING.ORG (also by me) and we have got a magnificent new package of REAL REFORMS that can CLEAN UP long standing complaints about the fairness and efficiency of the mechanisms of democracy that we use.
Thank you.
- James Gray Mason
@endallsuffering https://endallsuffering.com / @timetravelwish https://timetravelwish.com
Tweets:
After colonists defeated the British, they had gained the *ability* to vote when they could not have under the monarchy. There was never intention to grant a civil right to all, and voting was definitely not considered a natural right, as it is an invention of humankind.
The Framers never created a guarantee.
The Constitution allows the States to restrict access to voting bc the Framers wanted the government to discriminate.
You are receiving FALSE #voter information when listening to a commentator, a politician, or an activist etc., telling you anything like .....
"Every American citizen has a right to vote."
An important lesson of the recent MAGA tragedy in American democracy is that voting is a dangerous privilege and must remain so.
Right to vote?
NOW?
After that?
There never was.
What's the plan to prevent 75-Million MISINFORMED PEOPLE from #Voting STUPID again?
Talk to them? Make Tweets?
After TRUMP WE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED THAT VOTING IS DANGEROUS and it's a PRIVILEGE.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
#RightToVote is fiction and must remain a privilege, NOW MORE THAN EVER.
Here's a NPO that wants to create a RIGHT to VOTE, bc THEY KNOW the framers did NOT WANT Schmucks like the MAGAs using the DANGEROUS ability.
They STILL think it's about NUMBERS.
https://www.fairvote.org/right_to_vote_amendment
President Joe Biden said in a press conference, "The basic right to vote."
Irresponsible.
Inferring, there is a guarantee by the federal government for all to have a "Right to Vote."
No such thing.
He means fundamental to democratic governing.
You can ruin a nation if too many ignorant people vote.
Good question for readers to ask themselves:
"How much of my quick opposition to this is because I don't want voting to be more difficult for me?"
"Why does everyone say so if it's not so?"
"Is my repeating daydream, one day everyone will vote, too much fantasy?"
#Voting
I fully agree, effectively it has been and remains racist to allow the States to regulate and restrict voting.
Amend the Constitution!
Because it's an invitation to any legislature to act on their racist fear or just fear of dumb people.
A body can be bias for its party or skin color.
I have a rational fear of masses of dumb people electing horrible candidates who destroy what I love of the United States of America.
Since 2004 and I saw tens of millions of people choose George W. Bush after his debacle of Iraq was exposed, and his idiocy witnessed repeatedly; it's a fear of dumb people.
I fully agree, effectively it has been and remains racist to allow the States to regulate and restrict voting.
Amend the Constitution; let's take that right away from the States.
Let's adapt the Federal Elections Commission to make it an army of voting equality and fairness, with standardization throughout the land.
Because it's an invitation to any legislature to act on their racist fear or just fear of dumb people. A body can be biased for its party or skin color.
A typical new #liberal activists' view;
"If everyone voted, #DemocraticParty support would always win!"😃
Conflict: Free choices must be voluntary, so we'll never see everyone voting.
SO WE USE REPRESENTATIVES.
Now, we MUST have knowledgeable voters, or #democracy is over.
2.
POINT;
If everyone voted, we would not need a Congress, a Supreme Court, or an Executive Branch; HELL, let's trash the Mayor's office!
WHO'S WITH ME?
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Tested, Registered Voters will be the NEXT TIER of representative #democracy.
They'll be just like your neighbors.
EASIER to VOTE is not how a Constitutional Republic that is SELF RUN is supposed to use #democracy.
Voting carefully, as well informed and using reasoning that makes a citizen a GOOD JUROR is the goal.
The Framers trusted that learned people would be voting; NOT the #MAGA's.
I don't want KIDS driving CARS - I'm pretty sure!
I don't want MORONS sharing responsibility for being informed accurately enough to #vote in a manner that won't KILL US ALL because they may choose a TV celebrity egomaniac for president.
Reasonable? JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#TestToVote
My liberal activist fantasy days are over; it's not foundational that "everyone" vote.
Convenience was NEVER essential.
Having a pool of reasonable voters is foundational for self government.
I want tested jurors at the polls.
Good drivers. JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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My fellow liberals are going the Classic Way, the Wrong Way.
For better democracy the future needs quality not quantity.
It's another tier of representation.
I don’t see other plans that can find the fake news subscribers.
I can’t find a strategy that stops the next TV celebrity asshole from lying to tens of millions and becoming the president.
I don’t see a better long-term plan to protect #democracy.
We can test to ensure well-informed voters are operating successful self-government.
Tweet
#TestToVote
It's one way to stop the next TV celebrity asshole from lying to tens of millions and becoming the president.
I don’t see a better long-term plan to protect #democracy from idiots.
The USA is this important.
Voting is dangerous to life.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
If you were to slack-off on your news reading habit, for just a few months, you might fail the current events questions in the Voter Registration Test, and then you must wait until the next General.
The well informed voter is fundamental to good democracy; not any voter breathing.
We're learning this lesson the hard way. https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
#VotingRights or
#VotingRight ?
The well informed voter is fundamental to good democracy; NOT, ANY VOTER BREATHING.
Slack off on news reading and you might fail the current events questions, and then you must wait until the next General.
#TESTtoVote https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
#CivilRights
We use #democracy to SAVE IT; our Congress can take turns appointing members to a term limited Round Table committee, that writes and manages the tests.
The tested registered voters would not have it any other way.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html https://pic.twitter.com/bv2WmTKIJj
If the citizens of Heaven insisted to God, they had a #RighttoVote for new Angels or even a new God; the Big Guy would immediately STRIKE THEM DEAD.
On Earth, the Founders also thought it would be ridiculous.
After Trump, I agree with them.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
#Rights
I don't want KIDS driving CARS ...
And I don't want MORONS sharing responsibility for being WELL INFORMED enough to #vote in a manner that won't KILL US ALL because they might choose a TV celebrity egomaniac for president.
Reasonable? JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#TestToVote
United States of America
VOTER REGISTRATION TEST
Region C
No. 13889D
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First Amendment protects 2 SEPERATE news media "universes" (all that is known).
There COULD always be HALF operating on WRONG information. (Pic below)
HOW does the community know, they know truths before they vote-in maniacs?
The current events questions.
#TestToVote
#VotingRight | Congress and fellow activists, what are we doing about the crisis we just went through; the MAGA infection?
It happened because we let half the nation live in OPPOSITE NEWS UNIVERSE.
NEWS for YOU, that condition is not changing soon.
#TestToVote; they would fail the current events questions.
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#VotingRight | ACTIVISTS, what are we doing about the crisis we are in, the #Trumpism?
A big factor is half the nation lives in an OPPOSITE NEWS UNIVERSE, TRAPPED in LIES
And that media condition is NOT changing soon.
#TESTtoVOTE; they would fail current events questions.
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Access to the polls is so important in self-governing that I want people to have the ability to vote with telepathy on the toilet, if they choose.
After society has an idea, the voter has an idea of the truth of reality, history, civics.
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#VotingPrivileges are called #VotingRights, because of all the drama of our past, and nearly everybody conflating the 15th Amendment's right against identity discrimination with a never written Right to Vote.
The Framers knew it, rights get taken for granted, and are abused.
1965 VRA extension shut-down:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html
The ills of democracy can be cured with more.
The Federal Elections Commission would have a department of Registration Testing.
They will produce thousands of questions for hundreds of tests.
A question can be challenged by any congressionally appointed member of a board.
#Democracy is the best manner of governing for citizens to feel fairness in their lives.
We've just witnessed it in #Trump; a misinformed or low knowledge electorate will result in constant frustration and frequent chaos.
The well informed will gladly #TESTtoVOTE.
They'll be the demographic candidates want to satisfy.
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
To NEW YORK TIMES, on Silverman event; on DISINFORMATION:
The government will abide by the First Amendment and leave the Press and any false news providers alone. But, we can test would-be voters, catching the fools before they can destroy the country with their misinformed voting.
Since there is no Right to Vote in the United States, the States can test voters to discover those who have subscribed to false information and weed them out of the process.
False news is dangerous; we don't let dangerous people drive cars, and so we test drivers. A functional country is as important as safe roads.
A multiple-choice test; on passing would allow a voter to be registered, and then they could vote with the most convenience possible, perhaps online, on their smartphones.
It's Constitutional; requiring a potential voter to pass a test of history, civics, and current events is not discriminatory of race or sex, or any group.
The process is not supposed to be easy; it's just supposed to be equally available to all who meet prerequisites established by the States.
Your RSVP is confirmed for
How to Save Ourselves From Disinformation
on Wednesday, May 26 at 7 p.m. E.T. | 4 p.m. P.T.
On the event date, watch it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/fake-news-disinformation-event.html
Ahead of the event, try out this little exercise about how we interact with news on social media. We’ll share group results at the event.
AGREED:
Google:
“In modern democratic states, a privilege is conditional and granted only after birth. By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from the moment of birth. Various examples of old common law privilege still exist, to title deeds, for example.”
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Why not have a nation run on the instant opinions of every citizen voting with their satellite connected brain implants?
Kids too, why not?
I submit, you would rather society find a way to discriminate based on reasoning skill and knowledge of truth and history.
→ #TESTtoVOTE
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And we could override w logic many of the excuses for thousands of #VOTERSuppression laws and rules.
#TestToVote will TURN the TABLES on those spiteful assholes who focus on restricting convenience to the process.
A State can do this.
Tested voters could have EASY access.
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#VotingPRIVILEGES
Liberals; why not have a nation run on instant opinion polling with everyone voting from their satellite-connected brain implants?
Kids too!
You would RATHER we discriminate in who votes based on reasoning skill and knowledge of facts and history.
#TESTtoVOTE
They'll have NO MORE EXCUSES once a State enacts #TESTtoVOTE.
Thousands of VOTER INCONVENIENCE laws (many written with intention to reduce participation), exist because testing does not; too politically incorrect.
The Founders couldn't voter test either, but because 90% COULD NOT READ.
We can all read.
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125-days ago a pack of IDIOTS, all thinking they could change the outcome of a completed civic process by stopping a ceremony in the #USCapitol, invaded the center of new #democracy in the world.
They were misled MORONS.
Do you THINK they have a #RightToVote??
#TESTtoVOTE ðŸ˜
Seriously?
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130-days ago, a violent #insurrection resulted from a belief-based cult; now about 40% of the electorate. 💣
They are modern #KnowNothings. 😲
#Ignorance was a major fear of the founders, who purposefully provided NO civil #RIGHTtoVOTE.
It's a dangerous privilege.
#TESTtoVOTE
#TESTtoVOTE
#TESTtoVOTE
If you are the #USConstitution's framers, and you DO NOT want to give everyone a civil "Right to Vote" because you can't TEST their reasoning ability; because 90% of the population are entirely illiterate, what do you do?
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You write into the Constitution; the States have a right to manage the civil voting process.
And you fully expect (in the 18th century) that they will look at the poor, the nonwhites, and women and write into the Constitution that the States have the right to manage the process of voting.
Re Stacy Abrams;
She's admirable.
But, I'd like it if voting advocates would switch their focus to the quality of voters and less so the fantasy of great numbers all voting with utmost convenience as an answer to the quest for the best democracy.
It's not; been tried enough.
-> #TESTtoVOTE
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Voting is a Dangerous privilege:
Scenario;
2003: 60% of polled agreed when the Bush administration chose to bomb Afghanistan with NUKES, killing everyone, but ensuring the United States, "Got the Fu*ker!" said George W. Bush.
53-days later, world war three began.
The 865 Florida voters that elected him felt a bit guilty.
The creator of the Palm Beach county election ballots was never seen again.
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FYI, I'm using the #USCapitol #Insurrection image in the background of this meme because that deplorable action was the ATTACK of the MORONS - BADLY MISINFORMED (and loving it) American VOTERS who were never tested for basic knowledge of US civics, history or TRUTHS.
#VotingRight/s
A DANGEROUS privilege!
I too, was a passionate GET OUT the VOTE guy for many years (even volunteering with my local Democrats to find people).
However, I’ve realized that sustaining good (fair) #democracy with the “well Informed voter” (concept) was never about the numbers, it’s the quality, and we are trusted to maintain this.
The Election Day scene from Gangs of New York:
https://youtu.be/dg8E6AEeVtI
Has Stacy Abrams seen this?
Geez, I hope NOT, actually.
ADD:
I was passionate about getting out masses of people to vote, for many years, even volunteering with my local Democrats to find people, and carrying voter registration forms in my school bag.
However, I’ve realized that sustaining good (fair) #democracy with the “well Informed voter” (concept) was never about the numbers. It’s the quality of participants in the process of highly significant choices, and we are trusted to maintain this.
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I'll bet not one member of #USCongress has the political courage to offer a bill that ACTUALLY PREVENTS the IDIOCY that began the ATTACK of the MORONS on democracy on #January6th.
The Attack of The Stupid BEGAN on November 8th 2016.
REFORM MUST address the CAUSE, not pay for fencing. ðŸ˜
The irony is a lack of political courage is a CAUSE of the Trump MORON SHOW that culminated on #Janurary6th.
We elect people who want to be reelected, apparently; they have NO COURAGE to FACE the SYSTEM with change.
PUSSIES OF DEMOCRACY! COWARDS.
#TESTtoVOTE - AS REQUIRED!
5.30
That would be amazing.
If States enacted #TESTtoVOTE there'd be nothing left for the Suppressors to complain about.
It turns-the-tables on their tactics of inconveniencing the masses.
A basic history, current events, and civics test.
Online, every 4-yrs, vote online.
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#Voting
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government ... "
- Thomas Jefferson
#TESTtoVOTE
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
I'm 99% with you, Keith, and have been for a decade or longer.
But, it's important that Americans know there is no civil "Right to vote," in the USA.
There was not supposed to be.
If not for +90% illiteracy in the 18th century, there would be a written testing prerequisite.
6.1
There's no Right to Vote, New York Times.
Your headline is not only misleading; it's lousy voter information.
These many inconveniences are the States rights to do so.
A Constitutional amendment would change that.
Because the reasoning ability of the voter was a great concern, if the people had not been 90% illiterate in the 18th century, you could bet the Framers would have created a written test for voter eligibility.
Had it been in place in 2016, Donald Trump would never have won. It's unlikely that he could pass a test of basic history, civics, and current events.
Testing voters would actually turn the tables on these frightened voter suppressors. A State could do it, they could put the tests online, and allow super easy internet voting after passing.
https://nyti.ms/3fBzdYX#permid=113068583
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#TESTtoVOTE
Don't worry; you won't have to go to night school or community college for a month to be able to pass the Voter Registration Test, you can study online with cool and fun apps.
If you're 16 and can pass, you should be able to #vote; because you have issues too.
May want to back step and address the fact that there's no civil right to vote in the US.
It's a privilege that the States have a right to manage and make rules for.
And after Trump I hope people realize how dangerous a privilege it is.
We're lucky he wasn't a warmonger.
#TESTtoVOTE
The bill broadly conveys misinformation, and it's this; voting is a civic process controlled by the States and is not a "right," as there is no Constitutional right to vote in the United States.
Citizens voting on collective issues and representatives to argue for us is an invention of modern humanity that is essential to self-governing, and fundamental to most ideas of democracy, but discriminating toward a minimum intellect of the voter is necessary if a nation is to benefit.
and accurate knowledge of the participant is also crucial.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government ... "
- Thomas Jefferson
I support voting to remain a regulated privilege, and the process never taken for granted as handed to all citizens, just for being alive and 18-years-old.
By the numbers of dead and wounded from war and those suffering now whom the government could help, voting can be far more dangerous than driving a car at high speed. Still, we can all agree that because driving is very dangerous, it must remain a regulated privilege and not a government promise.
James
https://nyti.ms/34z0Uvd#permid=113069353
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#votingRights Vs. #VotingRight
For 2.5-decades I actively promoted GREAT NUMBERS of VOTERS, as the answer to my liberal dreams for America.
No longer.
Voting is essential to self-governing, but discriminating of the reasoning of the participant is also crucial.
#TESTtoVOTE
https://nyti.ms/34z0Uvd#permid=113069353
Tweet / economy and TEST to VOTE
#economy
Now that productivity is returning, so will the money and greed, and this will create another "20 Somethings" gap of people with little interest in politics and government.
And, unless we change things, when they vote, many will be vulnerable idiots.
#TESTtoVOTE
Regional tests are essential, so 1 of the 20 questions will be of local #politics.
If you've already missed 5-questions (25%), this one can fail you.
#VotingRight
#TESTtoVOTE | Online access makes great EQUAL access to the written Voter Registration Test and Vote.
1 of the 20 questions will be of local #politics.
If you've already missed 5 (25%), this one can fail you.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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It's predictable that 65% will participate.
An election is a poll - the result depends on the percentage "polled."
Because equality of access is greatly enhanced, the percentage of eligible voters (passed) is expected to be accurate demographic representation, and more likely to be good (reasoned) decisions based on several obvious factors of testing.
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An election is a poll.
Predictably, 55-65% of voter aged population will become a regular electorate.
Because equality of online access is convenient, the percentage of passing voters is expected to be an accurate demographic representation, and more likely to be reason-able.
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6.5
What about your neighbor representing you because you're too busy and disinterested in politics to vote with reasonable care or study to know what the confirmed truth is?
When 60% turnout to vote (USA normal), they're being representatives for those not voting.
Do you trust them?
#VOTERTESTING is letting others REPRESENT those not curious about politics and national events.
ALL the community has proof they're reasonable.
It uses #democracy.
ADMIT IT; we've got NEWS POLARIZATION.
A #democracy may as well have a SUPER PLAGUE.
TIME for a WELL INFORMED ELECTORATE.
DAMMIT! 😠🇺🇸
What about your neighbor representing you because you're too busy and bored with politics to vote with reasonable care?
#TESTtoVOTE
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1401334721217499148?s=20
Sundar and the Other Guy, stop spying on my personal shit.
No. It’s okay. :-)
If this were the 18th-century the MAGAs would NOT have PASSED the Voter Registration Test, that the FRAMERS would have GLADLY WRITTEN into The US CONSTITUTION, if at that time, even 80% of citizens could read newsprint.
MOST could barely write their names.
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#VOTING w/ REASONABLE CARE:
I swear, if in the 18th-century most could read, the Founders would have CERTAINLY included a #TESTtoVOTE clause in a #VOTINGRIGHTS amendment.
Instead they PASSED IT ON to the States, that RESTRICTED voting to WHITE MEN, MERCHANTS and LANDOWNERS.
If FAKE NEWS reaches the Ballot Box #democracy is dying.
The #misinformation that is now rampant will NOT SURVIVE the Voter Registration Test current events questions.
People hooked on Fake News will likely fail the test due to those 5-point multiple choice questions.
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"My fundamental right."
Emotional newbie on CSPAN; in the context of #voting it is "fundamental" only to self-governing; it's not something you were born to.
With all the time this country has had, no lawmakers have created a universal right to vote.
Your Right in this matter is not to be discriminated against in accessing the civic process.
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When lies and deceptive statements reach the ballot box #democracy is corrupt.
In the end the vote counts; #misinformation now rampant would NOT SURVIVE the Voter Registration Test current events questions.
Those subscribed to #FakeNews would fail.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
Like the marriage licence acquired at City Hall, the voting process is a civil managed service.
It should be more difficult than getting a driver’s license, but not much more.
If a test is taken during a campaign season it should have current candidate questions.
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If #TESTtoVOTE had existed in the 18th-century persons like the MAGAs would not have passed the Voter Registration Test.
And, it's LOGIC, the Framers would have written it into the constitution if at that time just 75% of citizens could read.
Most could barely write their names.
We can ALL READ.
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#VOTING
There's nothing Sacred about voting, it's a civic process, like vehicle registration and licensing, without the taxes and bloody highway crashes.
Because it's possible a few people can be the deciders who choose an idiot who begins an unnecessary and horrific war, voting is very dangerous, and managers of the process (the States) need to find ways to discriminate between reasonable and unreasonable people to participate.
E.g. Florida 2000, #Iraqwar; and a voting age restricted to those over 18-years-old.
When #LIES and deceptive statements reach the ballot box #democracy is corrupted.
In a #democratic nation, the vote CAN BE a wall of safety against #FakeNews effecting our government.
ONLY if we #TESTtoVOTE.
The current events questions will stop them.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#Insurrectionist Riot of the IGNORANT should remind us;
VOTING IS DANGEROUS, and we MUST DISCRIMINATE between MINDS that participate.
E.g., kids should not vote on adult issues.
We RESTRICT VOTING eligibility because it's a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE in a self-governed nation.
When lies and deceptive statements reach the Ballot Box #democracy is corrupted.
It's the vote that counts; the #misinformation that is now rampant will NOT SURVIVE the Voter Registration Test current events questions.
People hooked on Fake News will likely fail the test due to those 5-point multiple-choice questions.
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NIGHTMARE #DEMOCRACY SCENARIO:
Every adult wears a brain implant that Satellite connects to the Earth Office of Elections in a space station high above New Arctica. ALL issues and political decisions are directed by MASS BRAIN POLLING.
Sometimes the whole world stops in place and masturbates, but glitches will occur!
In weblog:
Here's an imaginative nightmare democracy scenario:
The year 2068; the long time belief by voting advocates that everybody vote, and then democracy can save us all, has some glitches:
Every adult wears a brain implant that connects to the Earth Office of Elections in a highly secure space station, and ALL issues and political decisions are decided by MASS BRAIN POLLING.
Sometimes the whole world stops in place to masturbate.
2.
No representatives needed, because in that future scenario we're all plugged in.
No elections either, just full force EVERYBODY POLLED #democracy.
The #lliberal dream.
And a nightmare of MORONS in WAVES thinking STUPID SHIT with misinformation and deciding YOUR FUTURE.
Elections are synonymous as polls of the opinion of the public; so, if access inconveniences were depressing the numbers of the electorate on both sides, it should not affect a poll result.
Polls are representations, as our representatives are reflecting polls that sent them to office.
Elections are synonymous as polls of the opinion of the public.
If the percentage is an accurate reflection of opinion the poll is credible, and so is an election.
So, if a restriction effects all, why would one assume that only one side loses voters (or loses an imbalanced more) to inconveniences to access to the poll?
We might then focus on the level of reasonable knowledge, and truths the electorate learns, improving the quality of representation, and countermining misinformation.
#VotingRight <-- not Rights
In the United States of #racism, one has to say "Equal access to the vote is fundamental to American democracy."
So that the #history denialist numbnuts remember our past and maintain our gains.
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The democracy nightmare of Donald Trump as a POTUS inspires a few measurements of #empathy questions for the Voter Registration Test.
Well-informed, caring voters recognize an absence of consideration for others, and they vote against them.
GM;
Voting is a privilege, so, would testing for a standard of knowledge of history, civics, and current events, for eligibility create a smarter electorate that does not take the process for granted and possibly save democracy?
Voting is fundamental to the operation of self government, it is not a “fundamental right,” as something born with and necessary to thrive, and then taken (literally) for granted.
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Good morning;
Voting (itself) is not a civil right but a privilege, so would testing of a community standard of knowledge of history, civics, and current events, for eligibility create a smarter electorate that does not "take the process for granted" and possibly save democracy?
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1403318220472336386?s=20
The #Founders were a Think Tank of white men and merchants and landowners conspiring to get out of paying taxes.
They did not write a #RighttoVote b/c their demographic would be the only people allowed access, and 9 in 10 citizens were illiterate and so could not #TESTtoVOTE.
#Voting
Both Dangerous:
▊ The Your Hot Neighbor app.
▊ Voting in the USA.
Those women have a good idea of the general area of my home! Stalkers again.
The USA maintains enough nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on Earth.
Think?
#TESTtoVOTE; let's be careful FOR ONCE?
6.13
Johnathan Capehart show
Here is longtime Washington DC politico Chris Matthews skewing the 15th Amendment and conflating its purpose of equality to a never written Right to Vote: "It basically says everybody, because of our history of slavery, regardless of color or ethnicity gets to vote …."
He's so right and wrong; it indicates pretty specifically that the minority can't be discriminated against in access to the polls; it's not giving all people a right to vote.
He's right about this, the US Justice Department has failed to enforce the 15th, and if it had been, we wouldn't be debating voting access or confusing a generation by calling a civic process a right.
At 3:30 or so: https://youtu.be/twDYF7vOKcs
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/chris-matthews-former-host-of-hardball-joins-jonathan-capehart-on-the-sunday-show-114738757740
The full text of the Fifteenth Amendment is:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude—
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
“Amazingly enough we do not have in our Constitution the right to vote as a Constitutional right, we leave it up to the states … That’s where I get passionately upset.” - Bernie Sanders, 2016
Typical American reacting to have to take a written test to be eligible to vote:
“My God, this voter registration testing and voting on the internet is worse than having to drive for forty-minutes and stand in line when you get there! It’s actually more stressful. I think I’m being disenfranchised!”
6.14.2021
Are people that drive motor vehicles fairly representative of DRIVING in our society?
And, are all drivers representative of people of all places in our community and of all backgrounds and persuasions?
Are they tested for a community standard of reasonable knowledge and ability?
Without #TESTtoVOTE we can send a demagogic celebrity to DC who does a thing that kills millions.
#TESTtoVote
Are all drivers representative of all backgrounds, places and persuasions?
Are they tested for a community standard of reasonable knowledge and ability?
Without #TESTtoVOTE low or wrong info voters can send a demagogic politician to Washington who kills billions.
#TESTtoVote 🇺🇸
6.18.2021
It's REALLY BAD to infer to people they have a #RIGHTtoVOTE in the USA, because we need to go in the OTHER DIRECTION, away from trying to collect MASSES of VOTERS to trying to get SMART VOTERS who can REASON and know truth.
ANY IDIOT CAN VOTE; that's DANGEROUS!
#TESTtoVOTE 🇺🇸ðŸ˜
Totally; Trump would not have passed the VRA.
I'll bet, most of his voters - the Deplorables, would not be able to pass it, or too lazy to.
We should have a regular pool of voters in the hundreds of thousands in each State, who pass the test every 4-years.
#TestToVote
@N. Smith; Where is that "constitutional right to vote?"
We have had 245-years to write it.
After Trump, I think there should never be a universal right to vote. I believe those under the impression they have a right to vote have taken it for granted and have abused the privilege by voting like idiots for idiots.
Time to get away from the dreamy idea that more people voting somehow makes a better democratic nation. Voting is a poll of respondents, a percentage; tested voters would be no different, only able to reason and tested so the community knows they are.
Following a man who lied every time he breathed, what lesson did #MAGAts teach you?
Taught me, it's DEPLORABLE in the United States that ANY IDIOT is ALLOWED to VOTE.
The ANSWER to vastly improve #democracy is to finally #TESTtoVOTE.
A minimum standard of reasonable voters.
#votingRight; NOT as if you inherited the gift of choice by being a citizen who is 18-years old and alive.
American candidates have confidence that lying to voters will increase their chances of winning.
YOU ARE JUDGED by your POLITICS because the quality of your morality is exposed by choices in #democracy.
For the efficiency of #Judgment of #Sol3 I base your fate on this measurement.
Don't let the poorly informed vote.
#Voting is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE to take seriously.
6.19.21
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It's DANGEROUS that ANY IDIOT can #vote. 🇺🇸
It's misinforming and destructive to tell others they're granted a #RIGHTtoVOTE.
We need to go in the OTHER DIRECTION, away from Stacy advocacy of collecting TONS of VOTERS to a large reliable pool of the WELL INFORMED.
#TESTtoVOTE
Because it's imperative to protect fair civil governing and using adaptations like this, that move us away from disorder and toward a better society is defining of our beginning as a union and is our documented beginning, the Declaration of Independence:
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The process of democracy is under attack in the United States and around the world. First, trust in the civic procedure fades away enough to begin a vicious cycle of disenfranchisement for all.
This long sought after, and I would argue long politically incorrect manner of discriminatory selection of voters is an idea for the survival of this republic; as a self-governed and free nation that should always do what it can to become better;
SEEKING NOW
Voters who seek best run government to keep the USA fair and free and as reliable as a well-built ship at sea.
Without chaotic sways from waves of the malcontent and misinformed, this craft can be guided by the wisdom of the masses and not the emotional whims of low information voters and those taking for granted their fantasy of a universal right to decide the fate of all.
#TESTtoVOTE, it's dangerous privilege.
Pass it on?
#Voting WISE
What did #TRUMP teach you?
His deplorable voters taught me; it's very dangerous that ANY IDIOT CAN VOTE.
In the lesson lies the ANSWER to vastly improve #democracy, and make the USA a safer and more reliable nation.
Finally, #TESTtoVOTE.
We can all read now.
6.22
Today, a regular election with hundreds of millions participating can be turned by a recently uncovered letter from a candidate's mother revealing he pooped his pants in school.
NOT possible with #TESTtoVote voters.
They can reason matters.
6.22
Time to test the voters, Nancy.
#TESTtoVOTE; keep the misinformed morons away from the polls.
It's a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE to vote in a well armed democratic nation.
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A well-informed voter is foundational for self-government to work as trusted and fair.
#VoterTesting can turn the tables on #voterSuppression.
They'll be out of excuses.
Imagine, a reliable pool of well informed voters and a nation that does not elect idiots like Donald Trump.
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huh; I was stating something very similar just this morning about voting access/rights.
If the DoJ would just enforce every 15th Amendment violation, by states or counties, most arguments today would be empty.
6.29
A change that's needed, and AG Garland is beginning to show it, is for the DoJ to do its JOB and enforce the 15th Amendment at every inch of law, new and old.
A lot of argument and access blocking could have been stopped and can be with an aggressive department.
The process of democracy is under attack in the United States and around the world.
First, trust in voting is lost.
The #VoterRegistrationTest would be a mature evolvement of our civilization.
There are millions among us capable of representing the thousands among us.
and its long run benefit to progress and the American Dream, so much so that the restrictive nature of the test
Denialist Citizens!
Nearly 50% of American voters chose TWICE to make Donald Trump the president.
I mean, WHAT the FUCK!?
Voting is very dangerous; a reliable community standard would be for the SAFETY of us all.
Support #TESTtoVOTE, we're worth it.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
I mean, WHAT the FUCK!? (continued)
A reliable community standard would be for the SAFETY of us all.
The #CapitolRiots was the attempted INSURRECTION of the MORONS, whose fake news knowledge WOULD BE CAUGHT in the Current Events questions of the VRA.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1409992214172909573?s=20
Terrorists sneak around to secretly plant bombs, and politicians drop them in broad daylight.
In our system of #democracy, it's possible a few people with misguided knowledge can cause the election win of a TV celebrity and chronic liar who causes bombs to drop.
7.2.2021
Americans don't have a Fundamental Right to Vote. After the rise of Trumpism, I'm sure that right (as a thing unrestricted and guaranteed) would be fatally dangerous to democracy.
It is fundamental for successful self-government that a large number of voters, or accurately random representation of citizens is polled.
In a nation capable of destroying the world, eligible voters should have passed a written test of history, civics, and current events.
The numbers game and the Everybody votes vision were for small populations with unified news information, not hundreds of millions who live in information chaos.
#Progressives and liberal friends; in these modern times, the reaction of impulsively seeking more voters is headed the WRONG WAY.
I understand.
The Everybody Votes vision was fine for a small population with unified news, not this chaos.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE.
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The dreamy "If everybody voted ..." vision was fine for increasing voter numbers, in this nation where on average only 60% participates in self-governing; and it worked for slower times, not living now.
In this #democracy operated society, if our shared goal is to thrive and grow, adding more (and more) voters was never scientifically validated as efficient. After all, the concept is to be representative, not numerically huge.
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The dreamy "If everybody voted ..." vision was fine for increasing voter numbers, in this nation where on average only 60% participates in self-governing; and it worked for slower times, not living now.
In this #democracy operated society, if our shared goal is to thrive and grow, adding more (and more) voters was never scientifically validated as efficient. After all, the concept is to be representative, not numerically huge.
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#Science !
In this #democracy operated society, if our shared goal is to thrive and grow, adding more (and more) voters can not be scientifically validated as efficient. The concept is to be representative and poll intellectually. JamesGMason.com
" #votingRights "
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Had the Voter Registration Test (#TESTtoVOTE) been in place in any US State for #Election2020 there would have been more than 1 Current Events questions to fail Fake News adherents, for example; “Can stopping a ceremony stop our government from constitutionally dictated procedures?”
Yes.
No.
If Trump says so.
Stopping
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#CapitolRiots / #Insurrectionists
The NEXT TIME?
A Current Events question on the VRT to fail Fake Newsies:
Can stopping a ceremony stop our government from a constitutionally dictated procedure of democracy?
1. Yes
2. No
3. If Trump says so
Support #TESTtoVOTE, please?
Don't bad mouth #RankedChoiceVoting because New York City hired arrogant whippersnappers who made a counting mistake.
It's the best way to conduct a primary poll and fairly narrow the candidate field, so a choice of a majority of voters can be selected.
#democracy is pro majority.
Seeking numbers and not thinkers in this and other large democratic countries is a problem.
#insurrection
“Voters of discernment are not taken in by baloney.”
- Robert Picardo
Trump’s attempted insurrection affirms #democracy is precious, mainly because it can be full of dangerous #voting idiots who will believe bullshit.
- me
#TESTtoVOTE
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
Trump’s attempted insurrection affirms #democracy is precious, mainly because it can be full of dangerous idiots who will believe bullshit.
7.7
I'm a liberal who feels it's pretty obvious that voting is not supposed to be a right in the USA. It is supposed to be a privilege, but equality stands in this realm as all other public processes or events.
The process must remain a privilege because now that everyone can read, it's time to test all would be voters' knowledge of history, civics, and current events; for a safer and wiser nation.
Once testing is in place, convenience to access the process can be ultimate, like on the internet for everyone.
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/957064264983990273?s=20
7.10
The government may as well hand out guns to everybody, if we're going to allow ANY SCHMUCK who's 18 and can breathe to #VOTE.
In this deadly country #VOTING is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT.
Do NOT take it for granted, as Americans have.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#Voting
#TESTtoVOTE
Because 9 of 10 were ILLITERATE and so could not be tested for reasoning, before the Bill of Rights was authored ALL States had already restricted voting to white men and or landowners and merchants.
Who might vote was scary to consider, rightfully:
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We live by community standards and #voting should not be the exception.
Testing Departments writing Voter Registration Tests test them to ensure a person with an average IQ and a High School level knowledge of history and civics can pass.
#TESTtoVOTE
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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That dumbass #CPAC audience is dangerous because they vote, as much as the violent rhetoric they cheer.
America is worth voting for, after taking a written test of American history, civics and current events if we care to be eligible.
#TestToVote would turn the tables on them.
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1414220958207037440?s=20
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#insurrection
186-Days ago the ATTACK of the MORONS on the #USCapitol and our process of democracy occurred.
If eligibility to vote depended on passing a written test of history, civics and current events, many of these idiots would not vote.
An appropriate and timely answer.
7.13
#VOTING is NOT by itself a RIGHT
A well-informed electorate is fundamental to a democracy that achieves the dream of justice and fairness for all.
Has the United States made that achievement yet?
We deserve a minimal community standard.
#TESTtoVOTE
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
If voters want the process to be easy, what does that say of how they feel about participating in #democracy?
It says, they want it to be easy.
EASY.
Easy to elect a maniac.
Easy to NEVER find the truth.
Easy to just vote the party line, never mind the thinking.
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In the dream of representative #democracy, it's better to have careful voting behavior of a few than careless behavior of millions.
You WANT people to vote who feel it is important and who know WTF is going on in the world and not alternative news bullshit.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE.
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Restrict #Voting?
YES!
In a nation that can destroy the world or launch a war based on a lie, voting can be more dangerous than driving a car, flying a plane, or being drunk at a company picnic.
Discrimination based on intellect is important in this civic process.
#TESTtoVOTE
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lol; it's the OPPOSITE.
OMG.
Saying it, and hearing commentators and politicians saying it, does not make it so.
The process was never supposed to be a guaranteed civil right.
In fact, with things as bad as they're getting it's time to #TESTtoVOTE to save good democracy.
The passionate hoopla is about Republicans (losers) wanting to remove easy #voting access, there's no "right" in the USA and that’s a reason this is their season to restrict. There’s just a few more this year because of BLM, it scared them.
Left Motive; most voting advocates (traditionally left-wingers) are of the impression that great masses of voters (and if possible everyone voting) would solve most of the problems of governing.
It’s illogical, and in representative self government, it's not true.
7.15.2021
“Amazingly enough we do not have in our Constitution the right to vote as a Constitutional right, we leave it up to the states.”
- Bernie Sanders, 2016
In a deadly modern nation voting is a dangerous activity, but risk can be reduced.
It's time for a standard of safety.
If at the start, the USA enacted a civil right to a standard of education, it would have included sufficient #USCivics instruction, to better ensure a well-informed electorate and liberty and justice for all.
But we did not, and we let the ignorant vote.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE.
2.
So long as the public can be fooled w/little consequence, they will be.
THIS had been a primary concern when this nation was formed. But, the States had already begun to handle it by a limited manner, restricting #voting to white males and land owners.
A restricted process.
Democratic methods can repair democracy.
We're very good at testing for these things in our schools. A team of academics writes them.
It seeks a minimal standard of basic knowledge of history, civics and current events.
Like all those people driving cars have been tested.
Leonard; the elitist comment was not necessary and I think you know it.
This is about High School level knowledge that every American should have.
If you fail the VRA, you can take it again.
If you subscribe to fake news, the current events questions will stop you.
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#Voting is a risky privilege.
You can put a deadly dangerous person in the White House.
In 2000, 537 Floridians allowed George W. Bush to be president. He may have caused a million dead in Iraq.
All they had to be was 18 and breathing in Florida.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE.
537 votes, a margin of 0.009%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election
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#Polling
#Voting
Elections are polls to measure opinion even when electing a candidate. Achieving that is not dependent on the number of participants being large, only large enough that it is a demographically true representation.
I want the opinions of those who care and know.
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I have to say; for +40-years I have voted in 4 States and I conclude that on average;
#VOTING IS PRETTY FUCKING EASY.
If I need it to be easier than this, I'm a lazy citizen.
Easier has NEVER meant better.
Voting is "taken for granted."
Maybe that's why it's NOT a right?
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#VOTINGRights
The act of choosing dangerous personal behavior is a freedom. These activities should be mostly unrestricted, ONLY if unharmful to others.
Obviously, elections have outcomes that can harm the community or the world, but that’s why the process is a dangerous restricted privilege.
Or we could let all children vote? They have a lot of opinions.
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Climate Change activist VP Al Gore lost by 537 votes to George W Bush, who soon launched the Iraq War that may have killed 1-million.
Climate destroyed and horror of war.
Voting wrong causes catastrophic harm; it's WHY it remains a restricted privilege to vote.
Like operating a motor vehicle at high speeds with thousands of others, voting is an activity that can result in horrible things. It’s difficult to refute reasoning why voting should never be taken for granted by default of being alive and 18-years-old and residing in a State.
OR,
In a society where an #AlternativeUniverse of news competes with the truth, not having #VoterTesting is tremendously irresponsible.
Like operating a motor vehicle at high speeds with thousands of others, #voting is an activity that can result in horrible things.
Try to? I want this discussion; based on reasoning, not the backpedaling quotations of old farts writing excuses for the faults of their civic inventions.
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The small number of voters that flipped election 2000 to GWB, after SCOTUS extra Constitutional inference, is a strong example of the fragility of the outcomes of voting, so why not set a minimum community based standard and test individuals, as other dangerous allowances are? Is that too logical?
#Voting
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I would BET that with the same passionate zeal voting rights activists today put into getting people to behave like cattle and line up to be counted by huge numbers, they could educate and inspire citizens to take the Voter Registration Test and become change-makers.
#TesTtoVote
Consider please, in whole, why do we restrict voting eligibility age?
What’s that really about?
Is it that the community feels the reasoning ability of the voter is acceptable?
Was there another manner of discriminating (among potentially millions) each person’s ability?
when this country chose self government by voting?
Taking #voting for granted, and adapting to ignorant voters:
Political parties work with State or county executives in choices of design of ballots.
In every election season, the lazy voter only has to line up their pen. 🙄 What are they, stupid?
Often to tragedy. I.e. Palm Beach County FLA 2000.
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Remember, the people together are not always right.
Who invented that myth?
#democracy
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#internet
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#democracy
#Voting
One of the January 6th insurrectionists was SO IGNORANT he thought he was at the White House while at the US Capitol building. DANGEROUS!
Worse, ALL those idiots were allowed to vote just for being alive and adult age.
Let's be a smart nation? #TESTtoVOTE.
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#VotingRight
#VotingMatters for God's sake, stop taking it for "granted."
It's definitely not granted, have you seen the history of restrictions?
#democracy
#Voting
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#VotingRight
Because brains rot and current events are crucial in the test, Voter Registration should require #TESTtoVOTE in every general election year.
This keeps citizens as valued change makers proven to be safe voters carrying a minimal community standard of knowledge.
#Voting Access
A constant competitive numbers race for winning the voter head count is NOT efficient representative democracy.
In futility it never stops.
It's a pattern of behavior for liberal activists for democratic solutions; to THINK if EVERYBODY VOTES = utopia.
Stop it.
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#democracy
on #LSD
taking #acidTrips
#voting rights out-of-control
#dystopian
Whisky 🥃
INCREDIBLY CONVENIENT VOTING FINALLY ACHIEVED?
Will that solve things?
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The collective consciousness resembles madness.
#votingRights
Be careful.
An inevitable evolution of EVERYBODY VOTING is operating government w/all citizens connected to a central computer that runs the nation based on collective opinion; and then NO NEED for representatives.
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And it’s dumb. Our collective opinions are madness.
It’s time to #TESTtoVOTE, smarten up.
Which is more important in #democracy?
Individuals voting.
Representatives voting (for collectives).
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7.21.2021
How little the freedom to vote dumb or not, crowd considers things; like being concerned that my proposal that now is the time for statewide voter registration testing of basic knowledge to a community standard is democracy destroying voter suppression, when they do not consider that the age restriction for voting was and remains a voter suppression strategy that is all about the intellect of the voter.
It was when first agreed on a FEAR of an immature brain, of an actual child or a adult that can not fully grow up (we all know one), deciding the fate of the adults, was a civic nightmare. Probably literally a REM sleep nightmare for early leaders of our first governments state and federal.
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How little the freedom to vote dumb or not, crowd considers things when making paralell to my advocacy for statewide voter registration testing of basic knowledge to a community standard and outright democracy destroying voter suppression, intended to suppress.
I would love it if 100% of mature citizens passed the Voter Registration Test and became change makers. Maybe then we could see a utopian government? In fact, I’ve proposed that if a State uses only VRT eligibility, that that should be online, and instant voting on passing should be a part (during early voting).
There has been voter suppression from the start of this experiment in self government.
A truth we can not deny is that the age restriction for voting was and remains a voter suppression strategy that is all about the level of the voter's intellect. It is logical discrimination that is based in community standards (of consensus).
When first agreed, it was a mutual fear, and it must have been a civic nightmare, that an immature brain, of an actual child or an adult that can not fully grow up (we all know one), would be deciding the fate of the community on matters of life and death. For those pioneers of modern democracy, the idea of it was likely, literally a REM sleep nightmare.
It was too rare, but if only everyone could read in the late 18th-century, they could have written simple tests to ensure trust from all in the decisions of the electorate.
Because of the widespread illiteracy and with few options, before the Bill of Rights was even considered, leaders at the State level had already restricted voting to white males and or landowners and merchants. Unfortunately to their judgment, those were the reasonable among us.
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It was a mutual fear, and must have been a civic nightmare, that an immature brain would be deciding the fate of the community on matters of life and death. For those pioneers the idea of it was likely a daymare.
After Trump, nightmares.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE.
If the procedural ceremony of the Electoral College vote count in the United States Capitol building has to pause for any reason, the old president gets to stay in office.
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#VotingRight
One of the questions might be .....
3. If the procedural ceremony of the Electoral College vote count in the United States Capitol building has to pause for any reason, the old president gets to stay in office.
Yes.
No.
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How would you answer?
#TESTtoVOTE
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#votingRights
After formation of the USA, people have died for the right to vote EQUALLY like the majority.
Politicians, civil rights activists, and commenters on television say it but, there is not and never was supposed to be a Right to Vote.
Morons might do it!
#TESTtoVote
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If there's one big thing the #Insurrectionists of the #CapitolRiot had in common, it is their membership in the political tribe of WHITE TRASH SHIT-for-BRAINS vulnerable to Trump's lying.
The current events questions of the Voter Registration Test would STOP them.
Just two questions, how do you have beers with the guys after work from home? And, how do you drive drunk home from that from home?
You can’t. Case made.
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" #VotingRights "
It is a problem in the United States that people are of the idea that #voting is a right.
RIGHTS are taken for granted.
They are ABUSED and neglected.
Privileges are taken as serious.
For GOOD REASON, like driving a car, voting is a DANGEROUS privilege.
#Representation
It's election day in the nation of Your Mind (population 10), and casting your vote will require a 1-mile walk.
Disregard the reason; will you walk a mile to participate?
After your answer, raise the population to 1-million. Is your vote now less important?
2.
If every 10th person feels the way you do about voting, and don't want to walk a mile to cast a ballot, what does that do to the quality of representation in your democratic nation?
Should voting be as convenient as possible?
Will that cause incurious people to vote?
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After lowering voting age to 4 (it was too suppressive) and installing a mandatory wireless instant voting implant in ALL citizens, we can eliminate Congress and the President and have PURE MAJORITY RULE #democracy for ALL decisions.
Utopic.
Implants in the dogs too, they have "rights" also, you know.
Because EVERYBODY needs to vote to reach the liberal utopian dream.
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The above statement is an old activist pathway for a less complex time when nearly EVERY minority class was restricted from voting in some manner.
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You would not correct the grammar, if in a table card game the dealer said to a player who is making a choice, "That's your right."
It means the player gets to do what's fair in the game; it's about their equality.
The right to vote shall not be ...
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In the "off year" elections, and in General elections when the issues are not loud, the candidates are not extreme or rousing and the typical turnout is 6 in 10 eligible adults voting, is the RESULT of that type of pattern of elections representative of American needs or known answers to our problems?
Did #democracy work?
Under #TESTtoVOTE representation voting is guaranteed to result in more often RIGHT than NOT actions.
There are KNOWN answers to many problems, but in our current version of #democracy the refusal of reality crowd keeps bending the electorate back their way, enough so that those known solutions don’t get attempted or get shortchanged when they finally are.
Sick of it?
Not progressive enough for you?
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YOU SAW IT, if you watch, the new insane TRUMPISM, which was just the secret lovechild of Republican Conservatism, surged by millions of voters never reached in the 20th century because they were ignorant and correspondingly apathetic to politics.
But, they WATCHED TV a lot. Like Trump thought, EVERYBODY does.
Now we have to #TESTtoVOTE.
Better example; the American COVID-19 response brought to us by negligence.
Millions who had been stay home non voters, voted for him.
Without even drinking you can cause mass death if you vote for a dangerous lying moron.
#TESTtoVOTE : JamesGMason.blogspot.com
#VoterTesting
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The prefrontal cortex performs reasoning, planning, judgment, and impulse control, necessities for being an adult.
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08.05
Great article of opinion about Constitutional Amendments:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opinion/amend-constitution.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
VOTING AGE: in same article:
"Hence the slogan "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" — eight words of moral clarity that became impossible to disagree with." - editorial from JESSE WEGMAN 08 05 21
It's not moral clarity; it's ethical confusion. I completely disagree with this, especially now that science shows us that the male brain is not fully developed until age 25. An irony is that if a citizen feels that voting is NOT dangerous or deadly; they are probably not old enough to vote.
Also, this parallel would be closer to accurate if voting came with the risk of death or wounding and was a sacrifice for king-or-country, or if violence settled disputes of government and provided progress, but neither is true.
Old enough to fight, is NOT old enough to vote. These are two very different things, the latter requiring not only a minimum intellect, but for the best government we can have, it requires curiosity and a passion for civic engagement.
When the majority recognizes these behaviors make for wise self governing, we can begin to have the best democracy possible. Right now, we’re getting lucky.
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8.5
Orwellian?!
It's what the Founders would have insisted on if there had not been mass illiteracy.
An algorithm selects a representative 100,000 voters from a pool tested for minimum knowledge. All chosen w/equality from across our demographics (who we are).
Extreme? Possible.
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There's solutions to this mess. One is, we're going to have to test the voters for a community standard of knowledge of history, civics and truth of current events. As restrictive as it sounds, it's a measure that should allow easy voting, after passing a Voter Registration Test.
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#VoterTesting
A driver's license is so your community has an indication you won't kill others with a car.
Passing the Voter Registration Test will indicate you care about the path of government, and you possess minimum knowledge.
You can help to drive the self governed USA.
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There's no Right to Vote.
Stop it.
It's really bad to tell people they have it.
Voting is one of the last things a person should have the feeling of entitlement to.
It's a process that should never be taken for granted, like rights are.
Voting is a dangerous privilege.
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As irony rules, it's #Deplorable we do not #TESTtoVOTE.
The history, civics, and current events questions of the Voter Registration Tests WILL FIND those with Trumptastic ideas about self-government #democracy, #equality, #representation, and #ethics.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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Trump was the final straw, I learned I should not trust American voters to choose wisely.
For the most part, they are the laziest and dumbest voters a #democracy could fear having.
They regard the process as granted as a right, so, no study needed and experimentation is okay.
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Rights (like breathing) get taken for granted, and like health care should be, we want them to be. However, privileges are respected and taken seriously, and seldom abused.
Voting is a privilege, and because it's the USA, it's a damn dangerous one.
We can save this experiment if we #TESTtoVOTE.
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#voterTesting
#TESTtoVote
Aren't you getting sick of asking about the mental health of a group of voters?
Intellect is a primary concern in allowing voting. Yet, in the USA any dumbass who is 18 and breathing can pull a lever, and affect the world.
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#VOTERtesting, or #TESTtoVOTE is a logical BARRIER to VOTING like the door on a car is a barrier to falling out and dying on the highway.
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1428340940209545219?s=20
Because safety of all has been a concern from the start, it's why there's an age restriction to access voting; it's how intellect is vetted.
8.23
Hi; here's my hastily written essay filled with arguments for #voterTesting / #TestToVote.
Aside, there's no evidence yet that the ease of voting or masses creates a more fair and just self governed society.
A minimal community standard, that's all.
jamesgmason.blogspot.com
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conversation/ attempted
I know a lot about corruption.
That the States control the process of elections makes the #TestToVote concept even more doable.
The ease of voting can be greatly increased because it's a written test and online, vote after.
And, American educators are expert in writing exams.
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Hmm; you don't trust #democracy much, do you?
What makes you think a democratic and transparent process will NOT BE the demand of everyone?
Why jump to the extreme presumption?
We use democratic tools to reform processes so important to governing.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
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#VotingRights ?
#VoterTesting is needed for many logical reasons;
Like a DMV written exam, they create #FREEDOM from worry community-wide, that Morons could "get behind the wheel" of this self-governed country, and that could EASILY result in a World War or a fascist takeover.
9.29.21
The plurality agree;
#votingRights ? Huh?
Alien Overlords destroying billions of lives would not be so bad! As compared to ignorant voters choosing somebody who could destroy ALL of our world. See?
See the scientific polling?
#TestToVote
jamesgmason.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/EndAllSuffering/status/1443221113513910277?s=20
I imagine ignorance SQAUNCHED and the UNCARING on the sidelines.
People studying to pass the Voter Registration Test, learning, gaining understanding.
A minimum community standard creates a reliable electorate.
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8.26.2021
Correction; A march for "An equal right to vote."
If you have to ask "Who is entitled to the right to vote," there isn't one.
Because it's been a privilege and we are supposed to be cautious.
Voting has dangerous outcomes, like driving badly on the highway does.
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#VotingRightsMarch Hello!
A HUGE THREAT to #democracy is PEOPLE who TAKE VOTING FOR GRANTED and ABUSE the process by experimenting w/RACIST, MYSYONIST, IGNORANT TV REALITY SHOW HOST, CHRONIC LYING BIGOTS who hate government!
That's a reason #voting is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE.
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If voting were only a head count and not an intellectual process, this idea would have logic.
The intellect of the voter is WHY we have a voting age restriction. Almost NOBODY could read when the USA was founded, or WE WOULD have actual #VOTERTESTING.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/politics/kids-right-to-vote.html?smid=tw-share
9.15
#Liberals ; The " #votingRights " bills in congress are adaptations BACKWARDS.
There's no evidence and no logic, that making voting EASY, or everybody voting makes better representation.
#VOTERTESTING is HOW to fix our nation.
Voters meeting a minimum community standard:
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Quality not Quantity.
We are not sheep to be herded for a head count.
Voting is an intellectual process, where it is presumed you know what is really going on.
That's why we have an age restriction; it's only way (as opposed to the logic of voter testing) to indicate smarts.
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#VotingRight / Wisely
The voting numbers suppressors would have NOTHING LEFT of restrictions to desire IF WE BEGIN #VOTERTESTING.
IT TURNS THE TABLES.
It will best ensure the absence of IDIOTIC GOVERNMENT, and MORON leaders (TangerineLeftwards arrow).
It sets a community standard of brains.
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9.27.2021
#DailyShow video totally reminds;
#VoterTesting Now! wtf .... these people want to drive our government and they don't understand WTF it is. Allowing this ignorance to determine our futures is intolerable.
It's OK, and Constitutional to support #TestToVote. Be bold.
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Again, sorry if I'm a nuisance, but it's time to #TestToVote / #VoterTesting . I'm sick of the same old failed answers, like focusing on numbers of voters season after season, like herding cattle. We can't trust the electorate to NOT be dumbasses. It's dangerous as Hell.
#Voting RIGHT
"If a billionaire can't do it, nobody can!"
And, "Why not give him a try, it can't hurt?"
- 2016 Trump voters
Because of their ignorance, of what should be common understanding of every registered voter, the nation suffers.
#TestToVote
https://jamesgmason.blogspot.com/2020/09/voter-testing.html
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Perhaps, we should consider a voter registration test of history, civics and current events to ensure more wise democratic choices, and have smarter representation? The age restriction, after all, was all about a base intellect, but we can all read now, then, most could not.
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#democracy
In 2016, there was a clear difference between right and wrong.
Seeing wrong was not enough to stop tens of millions from risking the BEST GOVERNMENT EARTH HAS KNOWN, on 4-years of a MORON.
We have a crisis of intellect.
Time to #TESTtoVOTE .
JamesGMason.com
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#Voting is too dangerous to the health and welfare of all to be a RIGHT that's taken for granted, as all rights should be.
In fact, in the USA, voting is a DANGEROUS PRIVILEGE of the eligible, who are supposed to have a minimal intellect.
#TESTtoVOTE for good #democracy.
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#votingRights ; you think you have ......
245-years later and we can all read, now, so, no more excuses for NOT testing knowledge of history, civics and current events (real news)?
The age restriction can be lowered to 14, once #voterTesting is in place.
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Time for #TESTtoVote / #voterTesting .
We're in an ignorance crisis that won't be over for generations.
Voting is supposed to be an intellectual process, not a head count.
We can wipe out the whole planet with 1 wrong choice of a few voters.
The USA takes it for granted. ðŸ˜
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Easier to vote??
What evidence shows convenience to vote makes for better self government? Is that not the goal?
After American voters showed who they are, supporting an ignorant bigot by the millions, wanting easier voting is antithetical to that goal.
As if there had been a massive car pile-up with thousands dead and driving advocates are discussing eliminating the driver's testing program to solve that.
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In the future, they will laugh when they learn that voting eligibility was to be currently breathing and at least 18-years old in the early centuries of the USA.
When they read about the Republican Party and #Trumpism, and #January6th 2020, they won't be surprised.
#VoterTesting Now
STOP making voting a numbers game and #VoterSuppression (of masses) will no longer be an option for the party of desperation.
#VoterTesting of a minimal community standard of history, civics and current events is the reasonable answer to save this union.
JamesGMason.com
10.23
#votingRights ? No, breathing is a right, but in free atmosphere only.
HOW HORRIBLE was the inconvenience when you had to take a written test at the Department of Motor Vehicles, so your community has an indication your choices would be safe for everyone else?
#TESTtoVote
#TESTtoVote👆
Where is the reform that would prevent monsters like Trump from destroying the USA by deceiving those who never had time or the curiosity to understand?
#VoterTesting of facts is way a State can constitutionally address the clear and present DANGER. And get wise.
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Did the founders imagine there would be a day when tens of millions of voters would elect an idiot based on dozens of absolutely wrong facts?
That there would be such a thing as Alternative Facts?!
FACTS.
They did imagine #VoterTesting but most citizens
could not read.
~~~~~
#VoterTesting / #TestToVote will certainly have the politically unpopular effect of greatly reducing the numbers of voters in each district.
It's illogical to believe that good representative #democracy needs every soul.
In each state, millions become hundreds-of-thousands.
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#votingRights <-- USA myth
It is an existential threat to #democracy that #Trump voters exist because it's obvious they can be led off a cliff.
Because we don't test for essential knowledge, we may as well remove the age restriction, that exists only for fear of dumb people.
#VoterTesting / #TestToVote
Voter testing will undoubtedly have the politically unpopular effect of greatly reducing the numbers of voters in each district.
It's illogical to believe that good representative #democracy needs every soul. In each state, millions become hundreds of thousands.
~~~~~
There NEVER WAS a "RIGHT" to VOTE.
It's a granted ability, and a privilege.
Rights are taken for granted, we want them to be.
Voting is too important to become one of the abused and forsaken rights. It is an invention and we MUST be discriminant of INTELLECT.
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It was logical 245-years ago and also politically unpopular (but comical) to state that, in good democratic representation, Brains' quality, not the numbers of Boobs that count. However, few citizens could read a sentence, never mind navigating the complexities of politics.
It's essential, at least for a while, society teach the history of fighting to earn a right; however, we want our kids to grow up feeling certainty that it exists for them always.
When the children can "take it for granted," a right has been won.
No #democracy advocate can defeat the practical and necessary logical solution of testing citizens for basic knowledge of US history, civics and current events, to become eligible to vote.
#VoterTesting and #TesttoVote Hashtags on End All Suffering:
https://twitter.com/search?q=(%23testtovote%20OR%20%23votertesting)%20(from%3Aendallsuffering)%20until%3A2021-11-15%20since%3A2020-09-01&src=typed_query
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Science is not a liberal conspiracy; it's just that those who claim liberalism more often understand it.
#AmericanHistory, civics, and current events are more understandable, but only a fraction of voting Americans do.
#TestToVote = smarter government
JamesGMason.com
If the Founders had included a #RightToVote, they would have required all voters know how to read, because ignorance was a genuine fear of creating the first true self government. But, that would have excluded 9 in 10 citizens.
#TESTtoVOTE NOW before it's too late.
#Itoldyouso.
Governors; you can establish a testing system for all would-be voters, to ensure your citizens understand American history, civics and the truth of current events, if they choose to participate in self government. Ironically, refusing to do so is the type of stupidity the Founders had feared could destroy their hard work. We see this currently.
Tweet condensed:
🇺🇸
Governors; you CAN establish a testing system for #voting eligibility, to ensure citizens understand our history, civics and current events, if they want to participate in government. Ironically, refusing this logic is the type of non thinking stubbornness the Founders feared.
There is hard fought for rights to vote without discrimination due to difference in appearance grouping. That's actually very different. That's racism.
Humanity .... 🙄
#LookItUp ?
12.2
HEY DUMBASSES, please #VOTE, the Republican and Democratic Party activists NEED YOUR HEAD in the game (as a number)?
Not your brain, just be 18 and have a heartbeat.
And we wonder what's wrong?
#VOTERTestingNow ? Jeezus! WTF.
JamesGMason.com
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"The needs of the many dumbasses can be represented by those who are not and are tested for it."
- Me, just now, when considering the beauty of representative #democracy , and the most important thing missing from the privilege of voting;
#voterTesting = Dumbass Screening.
In the USA, #Voting is far more dangerous than driving, not because of the chance of injury to yourself or others, because of what your vote could be responsible for; ARMAGEDDON, or PLAGUES that won't go away, or multiple coup attempts because the president is a fascist idiot.
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How about codifying voting as a civic, government enforced, universal right handed to all just for persistent breathing above the age of 18?
An actual Right to Vote might help things along, or ruin them worse, as we take that for granted and abuse it?
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Guess what? 🇺🇸
THE WHOLE REST of the WORLD (96.4%) does not distinguish the #Insurrectionists as different than #Americans. WE OWN THEM, like it or not.
This is SELF government; WE ALLOWED #TRUMP (a major Dumbass) to become the president.
WE the people.
#TESTtoVOTE NOW!?
22.
#TestToVote / #VoterTesting
It's logic; if in the 1700's we could have ALL been able to read (not 5-10%), the Founders would have made it law.
For our public safety at the least!
The age restriction was ABOUT grown knowledge. Get it?
JamesGMason.com
#Smarter
3.
Meant for a High School dropout who later wants to get THEIR SHIT TOGETHER, the General Equivalency Diploma is a route of proving possession of a minimal community standard of knowledge.
When car crashes began killing thousands, States began testing to be eligible to drive.
12.07
Americans may be the laziest and most low-informed voters on the planet. We insult #democracy and the framers of the US Constitution by not requiring voter testing for a minimal community standard of knowledge needed to ethically participate in our government.
WE ARE INSULTING THEM.
12.09
“You can’t You can.
#TestToVote / #VoterTesting of history, civics and current events (real news).
There's not a right to vote, any state can create voter registration testing for eligibility.
Voting is dead serious. We take it for granted and abuse it by allowing any dumbass to vote.
~~~
#VotingRights no, a privilege from the start.
#VoteSmarter
w #voterTesting
We insult the Framers. We shit on democracy, basically, by letting any DUMBASS decide the future of others.
12.12
Want to save #democracy?
Want to protect the dream and have smarter governing?
Next year we should ALL be talking about #VoterTesting and #EliminatetheElectoralCollege.
Because a minority of voters, who are ALSO DUMBASSES, can elect another DUMBASS who is a flaming FASCIST. True!
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The Current Events section of the Voter Registration Test is 33% of the test weight. Everybody gets 1% for showing up, probably at the local DMV in the same room used to test new drivers (for our safety).
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Image building; the Tri Panel
Welcome to your U.S.A. Voter Registration Test.
You must pass each of the three sections with a score of 70%.
Your score will not be revealed to you.
If you fail you may retake the exam after 30-days.
Contained is Colorado Exam Region C, exam number 1257D; 2nd printing.
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Tweet w new image:
In addition to wiser government, #VoterTesting / #TestToVote is a roadblock to the low information voter who may subscribe to alternative news - that is never going away.
The current events section should contain recent news and political questions.
JamesGMason.com 🇺🇸
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#TestToVote
It can stop grifters and TV celebrity assholes from lying to tens of millions and becoming president.
I don’t see a better long-term plan to protect #democracy from idiots.
We test ourselves for so much. And #Voting is dangerous to all life.
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
Americans do not have a Right to Vote in the US Constitution or elsewhere.
Offering one would be a start that can allow debate of whether or not millions with no eligibility but being alive and 18 should have enforced and easy access to something so dangerous.
~~~
Sorry, but, it should be childishly obvious that to operate #democracy there has to be #voting. Honest rhetoric, please?
It's fundamental. Not its heartbeat or sacred; it's an invention.
And, there is no Right to Vote, it's a dangerous privilege.
"All" voting? Morons too?
~~~
“Vote blue in ALL elections!” The Tweet said.
While you're voting in unison, I want to remind citizens that voting is supposed to be an intellectual process, not a headcount race where everyone is voting with no critical thought.
“Vote smart in ALL elections! Support #VoterTesting / #TestToVote in your state?
The process is serious, not easy.
Revise
“Vote blue in ALL elections!” Said the Tweeter.
While you're voting like a marching band, I want to remind all that voting is supposed to be an intellectual process, not a race for a headcount w/millions voting without study.
Vote smart in ALL elections!
Support #VoterTesting ?
~~~~~
#VotingRights has to be about clear access to the process because there is no right to vote, thank goodness. Imagine, people voting without studying the candidates and issues? Or voting just because their friends and family were also, or somebody said to them “It’s your right, you should, people died so you can.”?
We might be very unhappy with the government.
Why vote if we can install tech in everybody's brains, that way voting on EVERYTHING is possible and it's like WE ALL GO TO CONGRESS EVERY DAY.
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He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn’t have a point of view,
That’s why he’lll vote for you
So long as it’s easy enough to
In no care land
#TestToVote / #VoterTesting , it’s what we should have done.
It’s not too late.
JamesGMason.com
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12.18
Does the #DemocraticParty fear their constituency is composed of too many who would not vote if it became too inconvenient? (WTF)
Under #VoterTesting the lazy will stop voting. Democratic order will depend on a steady pool of committed voters who would turn out in a hurricane.
12.27
#DonaldTrump ; of civics his electorate CLEARLY does not know their asses from holes in the ground, yet WE ALLOW the privilege of voting to those DUMBASSES for being at least 18 and alive. JamesGMason.com ;DUMBFOUNDED we let this IRRESPONSIBLE form of #democracy go on.
The majority of American voters are lazy participants. And historically, that's less than 70% in a general election of citizens breathing and 18-years-old.
And we allow them to be, and in a modern nation using democracy, that is the height of irresponsibility.
#TestToVote is logical and it's about time.
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The majority of US voters are lazy. And historically, that total is less than 70% of all citizens breathing and at least 18.
And we allow this, and in a modern nation using #democracy, that is the height of irresponsibility.
#TestToVote is logical and about time.
~~~
#Voting (is pretty easy)
#democracy
#TestToVote
There should be several simple True or False questions on the Voter Registration Test.
A question might be;
The First Amendment gives us each the right to say just about anything to each other.
JamesGMason.com
~~~~~
If a particular number of the “lesser informed” (dummies) vote, you will eventually see a correlating number of STUPID decisions by government representatives. If you do nothing about it, that shit goes on and on forever. So does distrust in #democracy and anger at the government.
#VOTERTesting
Edit
If a particular number of the “lesser informed” vote, eventually there will be a correlating number of stupid decisions by government representatives.
If you do nothing about it, that shit goes on and on forever. So does distrust in #democracy and anger at the government.
~~
There will be so many sample tests online and printed, many created by a State Voter Testing department, that having to pass a Voter Registration Test will be perceived as a Cakewalk.
If you don’t pass it, you didn’t care to study or were incapable.
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TENS of MILLIONS viewing certain news sources can be told something that is the opposite of the truth and vote w/that shit information and change the lives of everybody in the world.
Because it's VERY DANGEROUS to vote for leaders in the USA, we have nuclear weapons.
"Kaboom!"
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1.10.2022
#VotingRights
In the USA, we have a right to equal access to voting. A citizen can not legally be discriminated against based on their differences from the majority.
There is no Right to Vote; it's a regulated privilege.
Time to #TestToVote to smarten and save #democracy .
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1.11.2022
Tweet
#votingRights language ....
Consuming nutrients is a "fundamental," activity, not #voting to operate self-government.
In using democratic self-governing, frequently polling the people as accurately as possible is fundamental, and defining.
Until there is a technological solution to the best government …
Voting is a privilege and an honor. It must be responsibly conducted.
1.14
#Voting in the USA is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and you only need to be alive and 18.
A small group can be responsible for electing a person who causes World War 3 and the death of most life on Earth. Then, survivors would understand that it was vastly irresponsible not to #TESTtoVOTE.
1.16
Did the #Democrats find a single person who really wanted to vote and could not, due to TOO MUCH INCONVENIENCE?
If they can find that person, I don't want that LAZY FUCKER voting in my country. Do you??
Please take voting seriously?
#VOTERTESTING #TESTtoVOTE now, you idiots.
~~~
He did a pretty good job.
And, voting is not sacred, and it's not a right in the US Constitution.
It's a regulated privilege and an invention of people, not of gods. And, it's supposed to be an intellectual process, not some massive head-count, as it has become for all sides.
~~
The "right" is of Equal Access to the polls, as the Fifteenth Amendment enshrines, and it must be enforced by the US Justice Department, whenever racial injustice (in access) is found. As it is doing (an investigation) of 1 new law in Georgia.
#Justice = #Equality
#BLM !
1.22
In a society where an #AlternativeUniverse of news competes with the truth, not having #VoterTesting is irresponsible.
During #Election2024 it will seem that all president election campaign time will be lies or lie correction.
We can be responsible.
jamesGMason.blogspot.com
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Under #voterTesting, in each State all candidates will focus their messaging toward people who take the Voter Registration Test.
Loud speeches of empty rhetoric toward a group that absorbs fake news and conspiracy will be a complete waste.
#TESTtoVOTE
JamesGMason.blogspot.com
~~~
In December of 2000 531 votes determined George W Bush would be POTUS, and so the Iraq War would occur, the climate crisis would be denied longer, an economic crisis would …
If voting is that important and FRAGILE, why does the USA allow it to be abused? Why allow it to be taken for granted - as if it’s a civil right?
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Please ask yourself; do you trust the American voter to do the right thing?
If you do, why?
In the beginning, the US civic process had an age restriction of 21, and in the States voting eligibility was white and male, or a merchant or a landowner. Very few could read or write.
Russia
Ukraine War .....
Too bad Putin had put a sympathizer in the White House. An antiauthoritarian president could have used that time to act to prevent the current aggression.
Or, an electorate of people tested for a minimum degree of safety.
It's not responsible to #TestToVote 4 safety
~~~~~
Is truth in democratic political information equally important to general health and public welfare as information regarding a deadly pandemic?
Further, what if Representative Democracy came with a No Lies rule? Would there even be 100,000 dead at this time?
~~~
Russia surely adapted to sanctions for the Crimea invasion and annexation. Too bad Putin had put a sympathizer in the White House for 4-years; a thinking president could have acted to curb Russia's aggression. Or, a thinking electorate?
Perhaps, in a different timeline, Trump kept a Republican majority, and Putin took all of Ukraine in 2019? An electorate, that stupid.
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#Voting ; why can't children vote?
Why is there no right to vote in the Constitution?
Why was voting restricted to types, such as sex, race, age, and position?
#Voting is an intellectual process, an honor, and a privilege, ABUSED by allowance of any Dumbass breathing adult. ðŸ˜
GOT A LIKE
~~~
2.2.22
#VotingRights no, a privilege from the start.
#VoteSmarter
w #voterTesting
We insult the Framers by allowing any dumbass to vote.
If their population had been literate they would have included in the Constitution a dictate of written testing to a minimum community standard. And THAT would be in the Bill of Rights.
We shit on democracy! by letting any DUMBASS decide the future of others.
2.8.22
After Trump, I would trust American voters if they each pass a Voter Registration Test.
If a citizen does not understand the basics of the Constitution, that will be revealed by their failure of the US civics questions, and the test. They can retest in 6-weeks.
#TESTtoVote now.
2.10
#Voting is a dangerous privilege, and an honor; and we abuse it and take it for granted.
For the sake of the safety of all, if you want to drive a car you are tested to a minimum standard of the community; for the same reason we must now #TESTtoV0TE and save #democracy.
2.12.22
Trump is a STINKING side effect of a nation with a large portion of citizens not curious enough to care to understand government. MAGAs know they feel anger, and they STILL don't know exactly why, and Trump never did.He never gave them an answer.#TestToVote🚫Dumbasses!
Under a policy of #VoterTesting political rumors and conspiracy theories will hold no weight, because would be voters are tested on current events, including modern political facts.
#Voting is dangerous privilege; it's not a civil right.
jamesgmason.blogspot.com
2.19
Another explanation; a logical and predictable direction of #democracy from the belief that everybody should vote and with great ease is an awakening that everybody should use brain implants to instantly upload opinions to the government. #Voting unnecessary.
The Borg. Hello?
!~~~~~
410-days ago a mob of DUMBASSES in a frenzy of STUPID invaded the Capitol building to carry out a coup for another DUMBASS.
They were each allowed to vote just for being 18 and alive. We need to know voters meet a minimum standard of knowledge.
#TESTtoVOTE; we test to DRIVE
repeat/edit tweet:
Under a policy of #VoterTesting political rumors and conspiracy theories become politically useless, as would be voters are tested on current events, and modern political facts.
#Voting is a dangerous privilege, and it's not a civil right. FGS! 🙄👆
JamesGMason.com
2.28
Replying to ___
Your lobes aren’t developed until you are 24 so your brain is still impressionable -which means you are easily manipulate
FACT; For females it’s about age 22, when their frontal cortex becomes fully developed and a common condition of peer pressure influence fades, for males it’s 24.
This fact is a good reason to have voter registration testing of history, civics, and current events. Before a pack of young voting idiots with false information ruin our country.
#Voting Right
#democracy , saving it from DUMBASSness 🙄
Continued:
... for males it’s 24.
It would be responsible of our nation to have voter testing; before a number of young voters w/false information destroy #democracy.
It may look like this; managed democratically ⬇️
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3.43.2022
#Media #information
#FakeNews
Every #democracy using nation needs to begin testing voters.
The process is supposed to be an intellectual one. For millions, very little thought goes into voting choices.
All humanity needs to treat voting as a gravely consequential behavior for the first time, and #TestToVote .
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3.5.2022
"At least one fourth of Americans are retards!"
- Kyle, age 9, Southpark CO
Instead of lying and racing to get that 1/4th to vote, because a competitive political party wants their numbers, Tested Voters can represent them.
Kyle would feel better. You are Kyle. 😉
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At the hardware store this afternoon, it was agreed around the checkout counter with several nods of the noggin that Americans as a collective are stupid.
I did not have the cruelty within me to remind them that means #democracy or "self-government."
~~~
If we could perform a truth test, 1 of 3 of your neighbors would prefer life in the USA go on without them voting.
Do you want to make voting EASIER for them?
EASIER, for THOSE people?
Why? Is your party poor at teaching ideas?
Political party volunteers, like I was, feel good registering new voters. "We need more!" I used to think.
Why is that? This is representative #democracy.
~~
According to those who continue the idea that our democracy must have many more voters, more conveniently voting,
Even after Trump and the MAGA's, a still unaware modern voting activist says; "If you are 18-years-old and still breathing, you need to vote and be represented, even if as a complete dumbass of society. You might know what you need. Maybe.
Outcomes of voting are very dangerous and the process must remain a regulated privilege to be treated seriously.
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If the #Suffragettes could see all the gender based bullshit this society is going through right-now, they would probably each shit their Victorian britches.
At least, everyone adult and of minimal mind is eligible to be tested through reasonable means, to then be able to vote.
~~~~~
Almost half of EVERYBODY around you is operating their brains on less than 100 IQ.
Most can’t name the Supreme Court Justices.
Some learn more of conspiracy theories than US history.
Many watch Fox News opinion shows and think that’s the world we live in.
blogspot.JamesGMason.com
Intuitive knowledge by those who wrote the US Constitution, when +90% could not read, was agreed this condition was a tremendous concern. The best restriction available was the age of the voter.
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If we tested voters like we test drivers, an event like #ObamaToTrump would never have happened; the stupidity that allowed it would not exist in the DANGEROUS and privileged process of electing people who can destroy the world.
#TESTTOVOTE = the cost of FREEDOM from morons. ↘️
#voting Right:
It should be unacceptable that any MORON can vote in a United States election.
+2-Centuries ago, when MOST citizens COULD NOT READ, a Constitutional age restriction was the ONLY WAY to ensure that vastly IGNORANT people were not voting.
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As a manner to ensure a minimal level of safety of the community and everyone we love "ON THE ROAD" we TEST each other at the Department of Motor Vehicles (dangerous things) for eligibility to drive (run a government), and #VOTERTESTING is just like that. #TESTtoVOTE. Jeepers. 🙄
4.18.22
#Voting Right
It's illogical to allow ALL PERSONS access to the voting polls, when so much is at stake and so much is complex.
In the USA, a few of the WRONG PEOPLE could tip an election toward a MANIAC in charge of a nuclear weapons arsenal, and temperamental.
Pew Research poll on Voting as a fundamental right;
They (the People) don’t get to decide this, it was already and it’s a very restrictable privilege and could cause great harm if EVERY BREATHING PERSON was granted a Right To Vote. The SCOTUS will have to decide, if there’s a logical challenge.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/
4.22.2022
EVERYTHING is #political like it or not.
Your family has politics, and your workplace and circle of friends.
~~~
Due to the First Amendment, we have a society with unregulated news content and Social Network speech, we see that misinformation can infect a large fraction of voters.
This condition can create a mob of dumbasses that can destroy a democracy.
They will start a war! #Voting is damn dangerous, so it was NEVER a universal right.
TIME to #TESTtoVOTE.
#VoterTesting
Due to the First Amendment, we have a society with unregulated news content and Social Network speech, we see that misinformation can infect a large fraction of voters.
This condition can create a mob of dumbasses that can destroy a democracy.
Due to the First Amendment, we have a society with unregulated news content and Social Network speech, we see that misinformation can infect a large fraction of voters.
This condition can create a mob of dumbasses that can destroy a democracy.
They will start a war! #Voting is damn dangerous, so it was NEVER a universal right.
TIME to #TESTtoVOTE.
#VoterTesting
They will start a war! #Voting is damn dangerous, so it was NEVER a universal right.
TIME to #TESTtoVOTE.
#VoterTesting
~~~`
In a society that allows lies, a mob of dumbasses can destroy a #democracy.
Due to the First Amendment, we must live with unchecked news content and public speech.
To protect ourselves we need to #TESTtoVOTE / #VoterTesting , as if we are all driving a dangerous vehicle.
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Because testing of current events knowledge is paramount in the purpose, after voting, having taken and passed the Voter Registration Test within 60-days of election should pay a stipend of $200.
#TestToVote
#democracy taken seriously. 😡☝️
~~~
5.10
It's frightening; American voters are STUPID ENOUGH to vote for #Republicans again this year and give the Congress to those NO IDEAS idiots, whose voters are sub-educated Neanderthals that would believe anything.
#VoterTesting #TestToVote = the Answer
Eliminate scary elections.
~~~
5.18.2022
It will be of tremendous benefit that it will take a degree of intellectual and emotional maturity to commit time and energy to take the Voter Registration Test every election season.
That State's voters won't be fooled.
Campaigns should be careful to be honest.
#TESTtoVote ?
Later
#DemocracyUnderThreat
#Voting Reform ......
Voting is not a right, it's a dangerous (the results) privilege. And, it's supposed to be an intellectual process, not only a counting.
Get serious about it, not looser and more convenient?
🙄 We are trusted as caring participants.
5.20
#voting Right
#democracy reform
Conspiratorial thinkers will have difficulty with the 1/3rd of the Voter Registration Test that deals with current events, also known as Reality.
#TESTtoVOTE #VoterTesting now, for our safety
JamesGMason.com
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#January6thCommittee ; is supposed to suggest legislation to prevent reoccurrence.
I'll bet not one member of Congress has the political courage to offer a bill that genuinely prevents future attacks by the misguided on #democracy.
Like #VoterTesting would do:
#TESTtoVOTE !
~~~
6.16
Now that everybody can read, we should have voter testing like we have motor testing.
They’re methods for the community to know users of cars and democracies have a minimal standard of knowledge to use their privileges safely and not hurt others with bad decisions.
~~~~~~
6.18
#democracy = self-government; we are on our own. Now that all can read and answer multiple-choice questions, we need to test each other to trust each other to manage the government correctly.
Voting remains a regulated privilege because the masses can make dangerous decisions.
~~~
#democracy = self-government; we are on our own.
Now that all can read and answer multiple-choice questions, we need to test each other to trust each other to manage the government correctly.
Voting is still a regulated privilege because the masses can make many dangerous decisions.
2.
#VotingRights
We should have voter testing like we have motor testing.
They’re methods for the community to know users of cars and democracies each have a minimal standard of knowledge to use their privileges safely and not hurt others.
JamesGMason.com
