Thursday, May 19, 2011

Liberal Genius Proposes Taking Away Senior Voting Rights

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Because we all know the those hopey-changey youth voters are soooo well informed after their years of anti-American socialist propaganda.
Boy wonder Ezra Klein proposes taking away senior voting rights.
The Washington Post reported:

Here’s your out-of-the-box policy idea for the day:

America should implement weighted voting to make voting more objective and fair, and give the young more power, because the consequences of political decisions will affect them the longest. Weighted voting would restore power to twenty and thirty year olds, where it resided before the advent of medical science. With the aid of computers, it would be easy to give everyone a Voting Score, just like we all have a credit score.

If your response to this is that it’s crazy and offensive, that all American adults are equal and so is their vote, you might want to familiarize yourself with the U.S. Senate, where a Wyoming resident’s vote is worth almost 70 times as much as a Californian’s, or the electoral college, where the presidency could be won by a candidate who loses the popular vote 4:1.

All of which is to say, we already reweight voting in this country. But we do it to give residents from small states more power. Does that really make more sense than reweighting by age, education, race, income or some other demographic characteristic?

And this comes from the supposed “smart” one of the bunch.

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