I always roll my eyes when people gabble on about the wonders of "getting more people involved and voting". I've always thought we had far too many people voting who had no business even being in the building. I frankly think, bare minimum, one should have to pass a competency test to be able to register to vote. Say, for example, the US citizenship exam - not like I'm trying to set a difficult standard here. If one knows less about this country than a new immigrant, one should sit the election out.
Maybe not quite that much but some sort of very simple test that even the least knowledgeable citizen should know. Like what party controls the House? What party controls the Senate? What party does the VP belong to? Is the US in debt or do we have a surplus. If so, how much?
Now these can be 10 questions like this all multiple choice. One would need 7 out of 10 before being handed a ballot. If you cannot pass the test, you cannot vote until next election because your name will be removed from the current election.
The left wants people like the Obama Phone lady to ultimately decide who our representatives are because the politically ignorant will always vote for a Democrat. Hey! Democrat sounds like democracy, and democracy is a good thing, right?