Weighting votes according to IQ/general knowledge test

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Some may see this as a way to discriminate against people or enforce elitism, but it does make some sense: We’re all different - some are more capable of making good decisions than others. Some people are smarter or better informed than others. The people I’ve talked to about this matter over the course of my life usually shared the same opinion - that, in general, meritocratic voting would improve the electoral process.

This process would actually require anonymity in voting because someone’s personal abilities would be publicly revealed, and I guess that’s what makes it unacceptable. Is this this idea in conflict with current Constitution?

I know it’s very challenging to implement something like this in the form of a law and in technical sense. It’s a very complex subject, but I do think many people have already considered it. I would just like to hear different opinions about this subject.

Probably Liberland is the easiest jurisdiction among them all to implement policy such as this. We’re online, we’re blockchain and we’re small.

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In general i think it’s good idea. Some general test ones a couple of yesrs would be enough. We need people who care to be able to vote.

Two things to consider:

  1. People with higher IQ not nececerly make better political decisions. I know very smart people who blindly beleive all they see in TV.

  2. As far as i know, there is a veto voting in Liberland. That one should be reserved to every citizen forever.

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I don’t think that’s right.
Human rights are human rights, smart or stupid.
Yes. There are certain organisations, like Tests | Mensa Switzerland.

They’re where people test themselves, their knowledge.
They find each other with common interests and move on from there.
My IQ test was 126.
There are people with higher and lower scores and it’s normal and everyone has the same rights and the same vote.
That’s my opinion.

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Wheighting vote in Liberland is based on your politipool stacked LL merits. (so like a big company), and not by head. As said Andrii, rights are for smart and stupid. I know a guy with serious mental problem in institution, but with an IQ of 180. So i dont think it will be a good idea. also it will be difficult to proove if the citizen really made the test by himself. Also anonymity is a complicate subject with blockchain vote. the best way is to “hide” your real identity as anonymous. otherwise, as all is online, without any assessor, some can think, without any detail of the vote, that can be faked without any proof. We can change our display name linked to our citizen account (but only once).

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Good point, we’re already meritocratic in some sense.

But in the end, mental illness and high IQ is not that much frequent case, besides, I would forbid voting to mentally ill people, no matter how smart they are.

I say again, this subject is very controversial and tough to discuss without some proper research on whether such thing would be feesible for running the country.

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