Should we ban all people with mental conditions from voting?

[OrangeMan]

you don't get to decide which citizens' opinions are more important in a democratic system. it's absolutely essential that votes are equal and that participation is as high as possible so that our government can be as representative as possible.

government isn't supposed to be representative

yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.

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[Magus]

government isn't supposed to be representative

Ours is. Our constitution starts with "We the people," not "I the president."

[patton360]

Orangeman is a failed lord tony imitator.

[otto-san]

government isn't supposed to be representative

ur right sry boss

[dr_pepper]

Orangeman is a failed lord tony imitator.

He really is lol

[Nonnel]

thCIA more of what im referring too. i dont think people that are declared mentally unstable in a serious way should be able to vote. im not saying every person whose every been to a psychiatrist should be banned from voting or something. but if youre in a psychiatric ward or something, or you have dementia, shouldn't be voting.

mental asylum patients are entitled to vote (in, like, 20 states, anyway) but I doubt the nurses are going to be handing out voting slips. In the other 30 states, people who have been ruled mentally incompetent are not allowed to vote.

[Plethora]

An important question to address is how much do such ones affect the vote anyway?  How many are actually voting, and what percentage of the voting pool do they make up?
Also there are degrees to which these people are affected by their issues, where's the cutoff point, and how do you ensure uniform application of it?

Being a commie is a mental disorder, right?

[Drydess]

while it makes sense on paper complications and authority issues would screw it up
it also goes against the "everyone has the right to influence their leaders" thing that america is all about

[e-maxx]

anybody who voted for harambe this election should have their voting rights revoked

[Drydess]

anybody who voted for harambe this election should have their voting rights revoked

this though
joke voters shouldn't have a choice in anything

[Nonnel]

the "10,000 people voted for harambe" thing was a meme

[otto-san]

think of it this way: if x people have no right to vote, that means they get no say in the leaders and legislators that can make laws that directly affect them specifically or indirectly.

if you take away the voting rights of people who put pineapple on pizza, then it'd definitely be morally questionable to say that government officials have any right to create rules and regulations restricting the use of pineapple on pizza. because you've excluded all the people that those rules affect from the electorate, they have no say and they aren't represented, and it's completely unfair to them.

[Nonnel]

we should actually take away the voting rights of people who put pineapple on pizza

[R3DRobo]

we should actually take away the voting rights of people who put pineapple on pizza

I can get behind this

[dr_pepper]

we should actually take away the voting rights of people who put pineapple on pizza

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