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"Your voting conditions are neither necessary nor sufficient."
That's not my goal. I merely want to have an electorate that doesn't elect young-earthers to congress.
"Well the hypothetical was set in segregation era South, but maybe this wasn't obvious, but I was talking about someone running on a platform of Jim Crow (and there were a ton of southern politicians that did this). It seems highly plausible that segregationism is a deal-breaker for some voters and even if this is their only reason for voting they are justified in their vote."
I'm not sure why the examples I gave elicited this response. I gave reasons why even a single-issue voter would be well-advised to know whom ve's voting for. And besides, if an opinion is held only by people who don't understand history, that's a bad sign.
"Edit: And of course your test is going to especially difficult for certain sets of voters."
That's why I made the second modifier. And there could be things other than wealth factored in, if you like - race, sex, reading-related disabilities, being a naturalized citizen...
What your system actually does is make it less likely that unorganized people with fringe ideas will vote. If there's an organization promoting a fringe idea, it will offer election test coaching to sympathizers.
"What your system actually does is make it less likely that unorganized people with fringe ideas will vote."
Why's that?
On second thought, I didn't say what I meant. What I meant was that your approach will fail to discourage organized people with fringe ideas. They'll form training systems to beat your tests.
Unorganized people with fringe ideas will probably be less able to vote under your system.
It seems you edited your comment after I responded, which indeed makes it look like a non-sequitur.
I posted it incomplete by mistake.