would you want someone to vote even if they aren't educated on the subject?

Answer 1

NO!!! It is very important to make sure our voters (and future voters) are educated in the subject!!!!! I cannot emphasize this enough!!!

Answer 2

Voting is in fact a right not a privilege as someone has suggested in an earlier posting.
With regard to this question, the forefathers were concerned with this, that is where the term "unwashed masses" comes from. Remember in history class when you learned that only white male property owners where given rights such as the vote? They were about 10 to 16% of the population. the rest of the country were the unwashed masses.

Yes, everyone should vote and no there should be no requirement concerning knowledge of the issue or person for whom they vote, if it required any intellect to vote we wouldn't have the wonderful government that we all enjoy today

Answer 3

I think voting only works well when people vote for the issues they believe in - why vote for something you don't understand? In the end, you could be voting for an issue you disagree with. I think also that voting is a privilege (not a right) given to citizens of that country. If you have that privilege, then by all means educate yourself on the issues and cast your vote. It wasn't too long ago that the voting privilege wasn't given to everyone. I think we take it too much for granted today.

and Mini - who said this question had anything to do with black people .. just unedumicated people. Does that include you?

Answer 4

voting in some countries is mandatory... like australia... and I have found from my experience that BECAUSE they HAVE to vote, many of them actually do get more educated on the subject... and even if the 60-80% of eligable voters that never vote voted and didn't know what they were voting on, would the results change all that much? Considerring that people vote based on silly made up things, like swift vote veterens for truth... and/or a silly scream at the Dean rally..

maybe we should make all the cadidates dance on tv and phone in our votes for who danced "contemporary" the best...

But the truth is, from working in the field in a past career, a lot of the people who don't vote lean left... for a whole variety of reasons...

Answer 5

The vote is the right of each individual person, and the only prerequisites are that they be a certain age and be a citizen. If the person votes based on bad information or because he blindly follows someone else, that acts as an incentive for all of us to try to make our democracy better, not more exclusive.

Answer 6

Sure, I vote in every November election. If I had to be educated or even interested in the subject, I wouldn't be allowed to vote. (Though my father is who really into it, tells me what's going on.)

And who is going to decide WHO is educated on the subject and who isn't? Gee, wasn't this part of Jim Crow in the South to stop Blacks from voting? You don't support THAT, do you?

Answer 7

I have always voted for the person I feel who can best lead our country. Unfortunately we have less and less to choose from. Nearly every day we hear how our government representatives are using their power to promote their self interest. At the rate we are going to vote or not want even be an issue. America deserves better than what we're getting and all of us should demand more from our leaders.

Answer 8

Yes.

First, "educated" or not isn't a binary choice, so any level of education selected as a threshold is entirely arbitrary and could too easily be used to promote a particular agenda.

Secondly, it doesn't matter. Statistically, uneducated voters will tend to split evenly on any choice, just like flipping a coin. If they don't, then they aren't uneducated. They may be mis-educated, but they're not uneducated.

Answer 9

Just an example of blatant ignorance regarding a voter I know...She said she was a "yellow-dog democrat"! Meaning? She would vote for a "yellow-dog" before she would vote for a Republican! Doesn't matter about the "subject" or about what is best now does it? Quite a zealous lot they are!

Answer 10

How educated can one really be? Most politicians have something to cover up and never really speak their beliefs.
Before they decide to run they make sure their past is covered up.
Most we can do is use our guts and vote for the one we think will try and do the best for America and the American people.

Answer 11

That happens during every election! Millions of ignorant people vote selfishly with their eyes closed, thinking that they have the scoop because they read & watch the mainstream media's take on the issues, or just because of party affiliation. Politicians bank on that sad reality!
It's especially frustrating knowing that politicians purposely hide bills on a ballot, under other bills, that many people are voting on with passion.
Americans don't do their homework!