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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (466952)	9/29/2003 9:30:15 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"...I have nothing against literacy requirements." Aye... but there's the rub... How does one implement such a thing? What are the exact regulations? Must the potential voter recite Shakespeare, or quotes from the Bible? Is a SAT involved? Are the rules going to be the same everywhere? Is the local definition of 'literacy' going to change every year? Should graduation from a High School (Somewhere else a College) be a minimum requirement? Does the examiner have room for 'interpretive scoring'? Will a degree from any school sufice? What if schools were offshore? You get the idea, I guess: The 'Literacy' concept is a dark unknown alley we as a nation don't want to start down... it's freighted with a violent and repressive history, and it's just a stupid idea with a lot more downside potential than upside.