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Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Raise Voting Age to 25 (or have a "competency test" for people 18-25)
(www.thedailybeast.com)
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He is not. He’s proposing bringing back literacy tests.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test
Modern Jim Crow. It's not a bug with the #fascist #GOP.
The more you know eh?
That’s super troubling, especially this bit from the wiki article
So it sounds like we could return to literacy tests at a state or local level but I’ve never heard of that happening, so there must be separate state level bans on that practice or something. Would have to look into it to form an opinion.