Reinstating literacy for voters

Tom Tancredo this weekend was the keynote speaker at the Tea Party convention. He suggested that we should reinstate literacy for voters, especially for voters who "cannot spell the word vote or say it in English" and who elected "Barack Hussein Obama." Do you believe that Tancredo seriously wanted to return to the voter literacy
tests that many states in the South used to discriminate against black voters and prevent them from voting. Should there be literacy tests for the right to vote in America? Or does democracy mean "one person, one vote"?


Lets look at all sides of this. If we did go with Tancredo's plan, and reinstated a literacy test, it could be a good thing, because people who vote should know what they're voting for, right? But, if you look at the literacy tests through out history, you will see how difficult they are, as if they were made for people who are insanely superior. So in a way, if we had it his way, it would seem like the test would just be a way for people like Tancredo have more control over us. America will not be a true democracy, if we do not pursue the democratic choice, which would be to not reinstate it. To let the people decide their futures. (although it doesn't work that way very much now either) It sounds to me, that Tancredo is a racist ass hole who really just has an obsessive need for control.
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