Can mental retards vote in the United States? I'm defining mentally retarded as I've seen it medically defined, an IQ below 75.
2007-02-02 16:59:17 · 15 answers · asked by Dr. Daniel 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
So really, I could gather up a grou of tards on election day, tell them how to vote. I'd then have 45-50 votes counted fo my side?
2007-02-02 17:16:28 · update #1
Man the mentally retarded can vote? WTF?!?! This makes me sick.
2007-02-03 05:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by The Man 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Probably not. When you are talking about people with a real deminished capacity, they are normally wards of the state. In other words, for their own good someone has been put in charge of them to make their decisions for them so they really have no self determining rights. Of course I am talking about the ones who are institutionalized and in halfway houses. You could put stroke patients ot people with serious head trauma in this group as well. In a nut shell since they cannot make informed decisions on their own they probably cannot vote, a lawyer could give a better senerio.
But the ones who are functional can vote. As long as they can make a dicision on their own they can vote.
2007-02-03 01:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by JFra472449 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So delicately put, and which party are the retards supporting this time around? You know that very vote counts right?
2007-02-03 01:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by patti duke 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. They voted for a rodeo clown, Dubya Bush! TWICE!!!
And what if someone with a few more increments higher than you in an intelligence scale chose to say that YOU should not have the right to vote because you are not at his/her level of intelligence? Hey, that was done back in the South up until the 60s... read your history books.
2007-02-03 01:05:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Well every American 18+ can vote so i dont see why not.
Unless you have commited a felony, then no
2007-02-03 01:03:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, I've never heard liberals defined quite that way but, yes, as long as they are US citizens they can vote.
2007-02-03 01:06:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I say everyone has their rights and they have their right to vote for whomever they want and wont be judged for it.
2007-02-03 01:03:32 · answer #7 · answered by mamas_grandmasboy06 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is perhaps the most idiotic, tasteless and childish thing I've seen on Yahoo Answers yet! What an idiot, you f*cking retard!
2007-02-03 01:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by rick m 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
A little intelligence
in a person
can be a dangerous thing.
2007-02-03 01:12:10 · answer #9 · answered by roostershine 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes,they're called Democrats.
2007-02-03 01:11:51 · answer #10 · answered by madame mao 1 · 3⤊ 5⤋
If they can be President, they can vote. Fair is fair.
2007-02-03 01:29:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋