People with very low IQ's should not be allowed to vote.

I will start this final round by first providing a rebut against my opponents argument in the opening round pertaining to the required completion of a IQ test to vote. He stated that it should be easy enough to ask people to complete a simple IQ test before they cast their votes. The issue I have with this proposal is that my opponent never introduced a practical method for carrying out such a tremendous task. This reminds me of a similar controversy when a movement grew pushing voters to provide photo identification if voting. [1] To this day, only 34 states have adopted this policy and only a fraction of those 34 states are actually implementing a strict Photo ID only policy. My opponent failed to provide a reasonable way to enact such a requirement without inciting a massive nation-wide controversy. This also bring up the issue of cost for implementing such a requirement. We would need to figure in the cost of paper or computer terminals and programs, the cost of additional employees to manage this process, the cost of machines or additional man-power to calculate the scores, and the maintenance cost for the machines that would be used to grade the tests. As I shared in my previous round, with roughly 317 million Americans - I see no feasible way of implementing such a requirement without raising both a nation-wide uproar and an enormous amount of money, the burden would ultimately fall on the tax-payer. [1] . http://www.ncsl.org... I. ". .. in my opening argument I merely stated that "most" retards are racist Republican voters, and vice-verse. "My opponent is correct, he did indeed state that "most" retards are racist Republican voters, and vice-verse. Unfortunately, stating this once again does nothing in terms of validating this claim. He did say "most", and per my definition I presented in R1 my opponent has failed to prove that his original statement is valid. All that was required of my opponent was to prove that 7,245,714 retards are racists who vote republican (based on the standards I set forth in R1). My opponent had a perfectly good opportunity to prove the validity of his original statement but failed to do so. II. ". .. regardless of a retards attitude towards members of ethnic minority communities, he or she will be allowed to vote for whichever candidate they choose, just so long as they can pass a simple IQ test - a test that anybody with an IQ of 90 or above should be able to pass. "My opponent once again fails to properly rebut my original counter-arguments. I pointed out previously that someone with a score below 90 is only deemed mentally retarded if they score a 70 or below. This leaves a 20 point window of people who aren't medically diagnosed as retarded and yet my opponent wishes to take away their right to vote. Furthermore, the original resolution states people with a 'very low' IQ score should not be allowed to vote as I also previously pointed out in another one of my counter-arguments. 'Very low' is only a score of less than 55. [2] This means that not only does my opponent misunderstand his own resolution in terms of what score is the cut-off limit, but also that my opponent - who has been arguing the entire time that retards shouldn't be allowed to vote - would let retards who score between a 55 - 70 to vote. It is a complete contradiction to his own arguments. [2] . http://psychology.about.com...III. ". .. retards can only understand simplistic political ideologies that appeal to base human prejudices. "My opponent expects the audience to accept copy and paste quotes to be valid evidence for supporting the claim that retards can only understand simplistic political ideologies. Not only does he fail to cite the authors of such quotes to show how the authors are indeed Republican voters who are medically diagnosed as retarded, but he also fails to prove how such quotes are said only by retarded republicans and not by any of the other 7 billion people on Earth. Without evidence to support such claims, I cannot accept this as valid proof that racist retards are republican voters who only understand simplistic political ideologies. Just to flip this for the purpose of showing the audience how baseless such assumptions are, I will provide a few quotes from Democrats who say equally disturbing things: [3]1. "A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee. " - Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy.2. "(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one. " - Harry Reid's comments reported by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.3. “White people shouldn't’t be allowed to vote. It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared. ” -- Left-wing journalist Jonathan Valania. For the sake of the argument, it is clear that republicans aren't necessarily the only ones who say ignorant things with undertones of racism. I ask the audience to consider this when I say that my opponent providing quotes with no links or authors proves absolutely nothing. [3] . http://townhall.com...IV. "These myths bandied about by Republican politicians are duly challenged by Democrats with statistics and facts. .. "I have yet to see any statistics and facts from Democrats aside from the quotes I've listed above. This statement also disregards the fact that I have shown in R1 that individuals with mild retardation are indeed capable of performing basic mathematical abilities. Furthermore, it does not take statistics and facts to ask someone what values they appreciate in life, and then applying their values to whatever ideology or political candidate matches them best. My opponent has failed throughout the entire debate to provide any form of valid evidence to support such harsh assumptions. V. The IQ test in not always accurate in determining levels of intelligence. Cambridge University ran a study (which is still being continued today [4]) a few years back to determine the accuracy of the standard IQ test in determining levels of intelligence. The study, which was published in the journal Neuron confirms that IQ tests are not an accurate predictor of intelligence. In fact, the researchers say that no single test - at least none that has been devised already - can give an accurate assessment of all types of intelligence. Their findings are a result of the data provided by 100,000 people of various ages and cultures who completed 12 cognitive tests. The tests assessed memory, reasoning, attention and planning abilities. The test also included a survey that asked about participants' background and lifestyle. [5] The study found that no single test explained the entire picture of intelligence. Differences in performance could be attributed to a wide variety of factors, including short-term memory and reasoning. They also found that lifestyle and personal background also accounted for a wide variety of the differences found in the test results. For example, while brain training did not help, aging did negatively affect memory and reasoning abilities. People who suffered from anxiety generally performed poorly on assessments of short-term memory. Similarly, smokers performed poorly on short-term memory and verbal tests. On the other hand, people who regularly played video games performed significantly better than other groups of people on both short-term memory and reasoning. [6][4] . http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com...[5] . http://www.sciencedirect.com...[6] . http://www.medicaldaily.com...I