It's just common sense to make sure that a voter can read, isn't it?

That's very literist of you.

Not only should they be educated, they should have enough disposable income for a Starbucks run 2-3 times a week. 

I disagree. They should be able to buy the newest iPhone when they are released.

That's one premise of the "literacy laws" that were used in the Jim Crow era to keep black people from voting. A person can form an opinion about a candidate or proposition even without being highly educated. While it's far better that the more knowledgeable a person is the higher likelihood exists that he or she will understand the voting process, under-educated, poorly educated and illiterate people can't (shouldn't) be prohibited to vote.

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What about people that don't know right grammar?

What if they are blind or have a disability?  

*who

*proper

Charface, you beat me to it.

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Hey there ex...

WHAT????, that sounds an awful lot like voter suppression to me, you racist you....

(it to me you beat)

I really don't understand this question. I know blind people can vote.

They don't need to be able to read Faulkner. They just need to read well enough to fill out the ballot, and even then it's no right of the government to "make sure" they can.

I guess I not get to vote for Trump.

Of course.

Well put.

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Blindness is not automatically or directly synonymous with illiteracy; many blind people know how to read Braille.

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You would think....Chances are it would "disenfranchise" about 1% of the population !  I smell a ACLU lawsuit !

Why not? But where are voters are going to learn to do that given our dismal public school system? (Kids "graduate" from the DC Public School System all the time with no clue as to those two of the three R's. And don't think about asking about that third R.)

But no, I don't agree with that premise. All that they need is to be "educated". I've got a neighbor that never learned to read or write and he is more knowledgeable about the world than any college graduate I've ever encountered. (I was actually shocked when he told me that; had no clue!)

You took the bait !   This dude is sitting you up for a Voter ID Debate !

No. The only requirement should be age, citizenship and ID.

No, this dude is being his usual toked-up self.

A couple of points too. We have voter ID in my state. No ID, no voting. My neighbor is an elderly member of the HDBA community and he votes. They local polling location graciously accommodates him every time he goes to cast a ballot.

excon didn't mention iliteracy.

What if they are blind and have no fingers or are a blind quadrapalegic?

i think so