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Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Raise Voting Age to 25 (or have a "competency test" for people 18-25) (www.thedailybeast.com)

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They are sooooooooooo fucking mad that gen z caused the GOP to get wrecked in the midterms lol. Absolutely fuming.

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[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He is not. He’s proposing bringing back literacy tests.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

The more you know eh?

That’s super troubling, especially this bit from the wiki article

The Supreme Court then upheld the ban as constitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), but just for federal elections.

So it sounds like we could return to literacy tests at a state or local level but I’ve never heard of that happening, so there must be separate state level bans on that practice or something. Would have to look into it to form an opinion.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Modern Jim Crow. It's not a bug with the #fascist #GOP.