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Do votes carrying equal weight?
In fiction author Frederik Pohl’s 1952 “The Space Merchant,” the Space Merchant states: “If you like philosophical problems, here is one for you: should each human being’s vote register alike, as the law books pretend and as some say the founders of our nation desired? Or should a vote be weighed according to wisdom, the power and the influence – that is, the money – of the voter?”
What is your opinion?
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Lol.
No, I'll just stick to the system we have, and say that a vote is a vote, and nobody's vote "weighs" any more than anyone else's just because they have "wisdom" and/or money.
On the other hand, there are TOO many times when our votes don't matter at all, because of the way the US Supreme Court behaves -- preventing all of the votes from being counted and striking down laws we have voted for just because they, the Justices, don't like the laws.
