Some kind of Test before Voting?

[The Free North]

Compulsory voting is stupid: people should not be coerced to give up their time and energy to sit in a line all day to vote for people they don't want to. You have every right to vote and if you wan to sit out and not exercise that right, its your choice. Low voter turnout says more about the political class than the citizens of the country.


A 'test' in theory sounds like a good idea but it counters a lot of the core values that we claim to support and at the end of the day it doesn't make much sense considering the people you would likely disenfranchise are probably already marginalized in some other way so taking a way their right to vote just adds insult to injury.