CMV: There are no downsides to offering political literacy tests to minors.

In my recent thread about voting rights, the most common pushbacks against minors voting were either they're too stupid to do it or their parents would force them to do it.

We have voter intimidation laws. Nobody is allowed to force or coerce anyone to vote or to vote any certain way.

I mentioned in one of the chains that I'd considered the idea of political literacy tests only for minors to enfranchise those who already have interest and political wherewithal. The pushback to that was that it would still end up discriminatory in some way. But the very nature of restricting their right to vote is discriminatory in and of itself.

And If you're all so hellbent on believing that they're too stupid to vote, it feels like the least you could do is to give those who are interested the opportunity to prove you wrong.