Well damn, guess you consider 5 year-old to not be people because you don't think they should be allowed to vote. I guess voting is validation of your humanity.
5 year olds do not have the legal right to make decisions for themselves. They have a legal guardian for that. If they can't decide what they will eat, they obviously can't decide who to vote for president. You are advocating for taking the vote away from adults of sound mind who should have every right to a voice in decisions that will very much affect them.
Well, we were never meant to be a democracy because that amounts to "mob rule". You learn to read in like first grade. If you are an adult and cannot read at a fifth grade reading level for some literacy test, then I'm sorry but you have shown such little care for yourself and have neglected your civic duty to not be an imbecile.
ahh, so it's victim blaming time? gotcha. Most people who can't read have reasons that is the case. They couldn't attend school, their school failed them, a medical issue etc. It does not mean they are are incapable of deciding what is best for themselves.
I don't think anyone is expecting you to read Shakespeare to be allowed to vote. If you are at the age at which you can work, and you cannot trudge through a few sentences (I don't know how you are getting jobs to feed your family if you are illiterate), then who is to even say that you will be voting correctly?
Why not require shakespear? Or an IQ test? or a DNA test? I mean you don't want "the wrong people" voting. You are saying that we need an arbitrary cutoff line where anyone under that line is not good enough to have a say in how their country is run. It used to be that natives and women were under that line. Obviously slaves were under that line. You now want to add a new one.
They can fill out ballots completely wrong by not understanding directions. Seems quite hazardous to me.
lol tons of people (who can read just fine) fill out ballots incorrectly. If that is your concern, then we should work on improving the voting process to make it clearer, like say with a photo or something. But we both know that isn't your real concern.