Quote:Not doing something because it's possible to be manipulated would mean we abandon almost all federal programs. Again you don't need a master in history to vote but we can do better than having a pulse and not getting arrested as qualifications for selecting the most powerful individual in the world.

Ok, so were do you set the standard, who sets the standard, what points do you use to judge a persons ability to vote? These are just a tiny portions of the questions that would need to be answered in your proposed system and everyone of them is potential point of massive corruption and exclusion. You can't use a standard to judge who gets to vote because setting a standard means excluding people. And excluding people means you open yourself up to a whole heap of dirty play by other people who would like nothing more to disenfranchise those they deem to be responsible for whatever they think is wrong with the country. 

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