Every American citizen should have to take a knowledge test before they can vote in elections.

To say that this would be a waste of funding is borderline idiotic. The United States of America is a county with a fourteen trillion dollar debt with over 800 billion dollars going to Medicare/Medicaid and almost 700 billion going to defense. Not to say that those are not important, but if a country has the ability to give that much annually to that one organization alone I am sure that a few billion dollars can be spared for making paper tests. No longer how long it takes, voting is an important matter and must be taken seriously. I am not proposing a test which must be taken every two years but rather something similar to a driving test. There will be a number of questions which will be decided by a committee of Congress or a subcommittee made specifically for this subject, and a random group of them will be given out for each test. There will be a new group of questions taking the place of the old ones annually to lower chances of cheating. The questions, which will pertain to the system and the people in the system, will force citizens to pay attention t what is going on and give an more fit group of voters. The electoral college is only for the executive office. I will admit that once in power, many are corrupted and forced to compromise with lobbyist and others in politics to not only get things passed, but to get votes in their re-election. Excluding the Supreme Court, the citizens hold the power to choose who gets elected into office. You are right in that Alexander Hamilton had the idea for an electoral college for he feared the general public, but you are wrong. This is a representative republic, and the founding fathers created a system where the citizens do not have to get involved with the everyday actions of government. I feel as though Hamilton had the right mindset in fearing the general public, but I believe voting should not be a right, but a privilege. The majority of votes get politicians into office and I feel as though they who vote both for and against should be ones who earned a say in the election. If liberals are shown to be smarter than conservatives, so be it. But to say that they are smarter does not means that the conservatives are not smart. To base an election on education would be biased, but not for the left and instead those fit to make an educated decision. This would not cause dehumanization but instead encourage they who know nothings to learn about the current events and what is going on in the country they live in. I would not worry to much about the poor for if what you say is true about the liberals being smarter, hundreds of billions of dollars of funding will go to social programs to help out the less fortunate. The literacy tests were unjust and I frown upon them but they were merely used as a point of reference due to their forcing African-Americans to have to take a test before voting. At no point did I suggest they be started up again and instead suggested a similar test be given to the entire population to instead filter out the unintelligent citizens who make uneducated votes based on little to no knowledge of the person they are voting for. Everything you said about the literacy test is true, but I am not a racist and did not suggest we use them again so please do not attack me and make any false assumptions about me.