Frodo
March 3, 2010, 11:54am
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But no one can be refused. Oh, they can be encouraged to quit, so like I said, the devil is in the details and how you implement it. But all democracies have ways of limiting the franchise, in the end…and all can be abused if enough people go off the deep end. I don’t see anything inherently wrong with the concept of earning the franchise through some means or other.
And the same can happen with any system where things break down. It has happened periodically with our own system, after all…and could very well happen again in the future. No system is really open, after all, and all of them are subject to abuse if enough people allow such abuse to happen.
-XT
Yes, any system can and will be abused, however, some are more easily abused than others, the Starship Troopers system seems too easy.
All democracies limit the franchise, however the goal should be to always err on the side of making it more open. not more closed.
Little Nemo and xtisme should try living in a country where they aren’t allowed to vote at all. They’ll quickly change their tune. Both their ideas on voting reform are repugnant to me.