Should Ohioans Have The Right To Vote?

One might think that the question, "Should Ohioans Have The Right To Vote? " is rhetorical. I believe there is a legitimate debate to consider because in my book, How to Select an American President (c) 2017 Archway Publishing, they should not. The possible reasons and answers include the following:

1. Uninformed and misinformed
2. Ignorant and deficiently educated
3. Unprepared and ill-prepared
4. Deficiently allegiant
5. Deficiently engaged
6. Violaters of laws and regulations
   
   

The list contains only six items because that is the maximum number of things most people can consider at once. My reference is Miller's Law: "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology. It was published in 1956 in Psychological Review by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University's Department of Psychology. It is often interpreted to argue that the number of objects an average human can hold in short-term memory is 7 ± 2."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two

The U.S. Constitution guarantees every citizen of age "The Right to Vote."

"U.S. election laws date back to Article 1 of the Constitution. This gave states the responsibility of overseeing federal elections. Many Constitutional amendments and federal laws to protect voting rights have been passed since then."

https://www.usa.gov/voting-laws

Throughout history, political parties and states' governments have sought to impose restrictions on defining voter qualifications beyond these requirements:

1. Living in the municipality, district, State, and Nation as a legal citizen
2. Being of voting age

Some have sought to require being English literate, for instance. Having disabled persons find a way up the stairs, imposing a poll tax, making people pay to vote. 

The idea is that the Right to Vote should not be denied to anyone for arbitrary and hurtful reasons. 

While I agree that a democratic society's goal is to maximize the number of citizen voters, I don't agree that voting rights should be without qualifications. Nor do I agree with slim requirements and standards for candidates to elected office.

The nation and world have become too complex to abide by the standards of 1776, for instance.

I believe people should earn the right to vote, beginning with primary education and requiring graduating high school students to pass a citizen-voting rights test based on a specific curriculum administered uniformly throughout the nation.

I submit that most of my fellow Ohioans have not earned the right to vote or whose skill, knowledge, and proficiency are disastrously impaired.