August,
You bring up a good point.
As an Election Officer, I see an "interesting" cross section of my community. There are times when I think that this idea of Universal Suffrage may not be such a grand idea.
What get's me is that we have a lot of people come in to vote and this is the first time they have looked at the ballot!
In Virginia we had some pretty complicated constitutional issues to be voted on. How can a person vote on such a complicated issue if the only thing they are looking at is the two sentence ballot issue??
I swear what these people would really want is if we were to include at the bottom of the issues
The Republican Party wants you to vote this way
The Democratic Party wants you to vote this way
Seeing the number of voters copying directly from the "sample" ballots the party representatives give them, I am convinced few of them even understand the issue. The politically correct term is "Low Information Voter"
One of these elections I want to show up for my Election Officer duty dressed as a sheep shepherd. Just herd them in and herd them out.
As a result, my county will sell yet another bond (deficit financing) and my State will increase tax expenditures.
Folks, we aint gots the money for this!!!!!
Sigh, Universal Suffrage. A great concept, but a lousy reality.