Morons should not vote

In this opinion piece, Mona Charen lays out a plethora of reasons why every American citizen is simply not qualified to vote. Not to mention, the US Constitution simply does not grant anyone the explicit right to vote. The only stipulation contained therein talks about each state selecting a President and Vice Presidential nomination by way of special people called electors.

• Ilya Somin, a professor at the George Mason School of Law, published a study in the Cato Institute's magazine about voter ignorance that offers a peek into the empty spaces between many voters' ears.

• Seventy percent of voters apparently were completely unaware of the fact that the federal government adopted a huge prescription drug benefit as part of Medicare during the term of President Bush.
  

• Fully 65 percent did not know that the government had passed a ban on partial birth abortions.
  

• Some 58 percent acknowledged that they knew little or nothing about the Patriot Act (a figure Somin argues persuasively is probably low-ball).
  

• Sixty-one percent thought, incorrectly, that there had been a net job loss in 2004. Only 32 percent were aware that Social Security is one of the two largest expenditure areas in the federal government.
  

• Only 25 percent could correctly state that the Bush administration does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
  

• Only 22 percent knew that the current unemployment rate is lower than the average for the past 30 years.

George Will explains how Democrats have to use courts to legislate their way to victory because they don't think their constituents are smart enough to cast ballots for the correct candidate.

• On Monday a Colorado judge upheld a new requirement that voters are responsible for producing identification before being allowed to vote. And Florida's Supreme Court rejected the argument that voters are disenfranchised when provisional ballots they cast in the wrong precincts are not counted.

  Imagine that: Voters are responsible for proving who they are and knowing where they are supposed to vote. There will be charges that both rulings permit "intimidation," which in today's liberal lexicon is a synonym for linking rights to responsibilities.