Quote:I'm an advocate of a voting license but for it to remain constitutional a couple of your ideas are a no go.


1.) financial status can't be a factor, and that would be in direct contradiction of what the "founding fathers" established. It doesn't matter if someone's rich or poor and any restriction on voting based upon financial status could be argued as a poll tax (Illegal under the Civil RIghts Act).


2.) Education shouldn't be a factor, albeit I can't think of a way this would be unconstitutional but I'd have a problem with it. It's not that voters are always uneducated it's that many of them are lazy and just vote party lines. The goals not to weed voters out, it's to force them to be more responsible with their vote. A college education doesn't accomplish a voter being more or less responsible with their vote, heck post graduate degrees have nothing to do with their contribution to society. You're disqualifying hard working blue collar american's because they didn't go to college?


3.) So now your basically saying if they have a job, I get what you're trying to accomplish but I think you're going about it backwards.


4.) Here's where I'm with you, establish a voters license. Make it as simple as passing the citizenship test, it would simply discourage the lazy voter from participating and that's the key to increasing the quality of votes we cast.


5.) Federal employee's are no different than private sector employee's. That includes police, firemen and military, we all play roles in society and the last thing we need is to establish some kind of cast system where federally employed citizens are held in higher regards then privately employed citizens. It irks me that at some level all the federal employee's forget it's the private citizen that funds all their paychecks, pensions, and benefits.