Website review: Vote, Voting, Government, Politics,...
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•dontvote.org
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chipd26 rated 5 months ago- Interesting identification test. People should vote anyway regardless of what the quiz results are.
- Narom rated 12 months ago
- Cute, but I wish it were more than matching names with faces. Then again, how much can one reasonably expect from internet quizzes.
- sbsbea rated 17 months ago
- How informed are you?
- niceguyjoey rated 18 months ago
- Discouraging people from voting? Thumbs down... Advocating a test before one is allowed to vote (however light-hearted this site may be)? Sounds like a literacy test... "The literacy test became of prime importance when the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in the wake of the American Civil War. This amendment forbade any state from forbidding any male citizen aged twenty-one or over from voting on the basis of race. It did not, however, prevent the implementation of other qualifications for voting. Since few whites in the Southern United States in that era desired blacks to vote, they developed the "literacy test", which was usually a virtually impossible test on American government which would be given only to blacks. Whites were often allowed to vote even if they were illiterate, sometimes by the invocation of a grandfather clause which stated that literacy requirements could be waived if a potential voter's grandfather had been a qualified voter, a virtual impossibility for blacks of that era." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test I'm not saying this test is the same thing, not by a long shot, but it echoes some pretty seriously bad shit from American history. Though an informed public votes best, I don't like anyone being discouraged from voting.
- Lisuebie rated 21 months ago
- Well worth looking at and thinking about. Wouldn't want to scare people away from voting, though. And no candidate will exactly represent your personal set of views. And here I always thought a $100.00 rebate on your taxes for voting participation would be a good idea. Hmm.
- gherald rated 21 months ago
- grimm13, those people are politically important.
It's also important to be able to distinguish politicians from celebrities.
If you answer I don't know to the 6 celebrities that don't matter much in US politics (moore, limbaugh, and leno do matter, I would argue) then you score 96% if you answer everything else right. That's reasonable.
perrymason, maybe it's easy because you know enough to vote. This test isn't meant to set the bar high, just some bare minimums. - grimm13, those people are politically important.
- perrymason rated 21 months ago
- You scored 336 out of 350 possible points, or 96.00% A You should definitely vote. far too easy
- rxreed rated 21 months ago
- From the page: "DontVote.org encourages people to Vote, but only AFTER they have educated themselves on the policies and individuals for which they are voting. Voting should be considered a privilege and exercised with responsibility and discretion. Just like a final exam, responsible voting requires self-education and thought. When the time comes to cast your ballot, if you don't know for what or whom you're voting, then DON'T VOTE."
- Warp-Crow rated 21 months ago
- From the page: "DontVote.org's mission is to combat the "Get out the Vote" movement that is pushed by organizations that would like to increase the number of uneducated voters to help their cause. DontVote.org encourages people to Vote, but only AFTER they have educated themselves on the policies and individuals for which they are voting. Voting should be considered a privilege and exercised with responsibility and discretion. Just like a final exam, responsible voting requires self-education and thought. When the time comes to cast your ballot, if you don't know for what or whom you're voting, then DON'T VOTE."
