There should not be an intelligence test to be able to vote on public policy. A test could end up being discriminating, there is no test that would truly be fair for everyone, and even without higher intelligence and education, people still know what they want to see in the government. Personally I do not believe there should be an intelligence test for voting on public policy, because the test would end up screening out an entire group of people whose voices should be heard, people deserve a right to vote even if they were not lucky enough to get a higher education. A test for intelligence would be a bad idea for voting on public policy, because when it comes to a democracy, it does not end up being fair. When using America as an example, in the past American had vetting for voting and it was very discriminating. Originally land people could only vote, and their needs were the only ones being met, and then it was only men’s needs were being and not women’s, …show more content…
There have been poll tests done in America and it would unfair to have intelligence tests, because not everyone gets the same education. Usually minorities do not get a better or equal to education compared to white people in America. A test to weed people out would be weeding out many minorities who will want completely different things from the government in the country, compared to everyone else. People with less money do not have the same education, weeding all the people that had to struggle and the people who represent the working man in their country, would be very bad because they represent a very important group of people for a country. With a test on intelligence for voting an entire group like this would be unaccounted for which is very important for any country. An intelligence test creates an entirely unequal system for a democracy, in general it is an unequal system and form of voting on public