Yes, the term for this is "Demeny voting". I can't find much downside for the idea, at least if it's properly executed. It's hard to imagine it happening in the US, though it's more realistic than the dreams some have of limiting the franchise behind IQ tests. Unlike those ideas, it wouldn't hurt minorities disproportionately, for exampl…
Yes, the term for this is "Demeny voting". I can't find much downside for the idea, at least if it's properly executed. It's hard to imagine it happening in the US, though it's more realistic than the dreams some have of limiting the franchise behind IQ tests. Unlike those ideas, it wouldn't hurt minorities disproportionately, for example --though the racial math would surely be influenced by the question of how unmarried parents are handled.
Thanks for sharing - didn't realize there was already a term for it. Agree that limiting the franchise is a non-starter, at least inasmuch as it involves disfranchising people who are already voting.
It would be a mess in our country with current marriage issues. It isn't just a problem for unmarried parents although that is a large number of households with kids. Who gets to vote for the kids in the households with the feminist wife and the husband who secretly votes Republican most of the time?
The HUSBAND "secretly" votes Republican? Are you suggesting this is a common scenario, where a conservative husband hides it from his own wife? What kind of cuck circles are you moving in?
I was specifically thinking of a couple I know where the wife posts all kinds of woke stuff on Facebook. In general based on polling results married men are 5-10% more likely than married women to vote GOP.
"Who gets to vote for the kids in the households with the feminist wife and the husband who secretly votes Republican most of the time?"
If there's an even number of kids, each parent gets to cast half of their ballots; if there's an odd number, a poll worker flips a coin to see who gets to cast it.
No, you just allocate a half-vote to each parent for each kid. It doesn't matter if they vote differently. If a popular vote total ending in a 0.5 bothers people, they can seek Christ or do yoga or something.
But one question is what do you do if dad is entirely out of the picture or is a nonvoting felon -- does mom get a full vote for each kid? I'd rather say no, still 0.5, sorry. But questions like that would be highly contentious.
Yes, the term for this is "Demeny voting". I can't find much downside for the idea, at least if it's properly executed. It's hard to imagine it happening in the US, though it's more realistic than the dreams some have of limiting the franchise behind IQ tests. Unlike those ideas, it wouldn't hurt minorities disproportionately, for example --though the racial math would surely be influenced by the question of how unmarried parents are handled.
Thanks for sharing - didn't realize there was already a term for it. Agree that limiting the franchise is a non-starter, at least inasmuch as it involves disfranchising people who are already voting.
It would be a mess in our country with current marriage issues. It isn't just a problem for unmarried parents although that is a large number of households with kids. Who gets to vote for the kids in the households with the feminist wife and the husband who secretly votes Republican most of the time?
The HUSBAND "secretly" votes Republican? Are you suggesting this is a common scenario, where a conservative husband hides it from his own wife? What kind of cuck circles are you moving in?
I was specifically thinking of a couple I know where the wife posts all kinds of woke stuff on Facebook. In general based on polling results married men are 5-10% more likely than married women to vote GOP.
"Who gets to vote for the kids in the households with the feminist wife and the husband who secretly votes Republican most of the time?"
If there's an even number of kids, each parent gets to cast half of their ballots; if there's an odd number, a poll worker flips a coin to see who gets to cast it.
No, you just allocate a half-vote to each parent for each kid. It doesn't matter if they vote differently. If a popular vote total ending in a 0.5 bothers people, they can seek Christ or do yoga or something.
But one question is what do you do if dad is entirely out of the picture or is a nonvoting felon -- does mom get a full vote for each kid? I'd rather say no, still 0.5, sorry. But questions like that would be highly contentious.