tfw when your country has voter ID requirements but still goes full commie
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WE NEED REAL PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS TO VOTE.
No more welfare migrants voting for more gimmees. No more moron uni students voting for their Marxist utopia. Oh, and if you and the Mrs. jointly own the ol' homestead, only one of you can be the designated elector for your property.
And don't worry, you only get 1 vote max per jurisdiction, so Mr. Yang with 20 investment properties in Vancouver doesn't get 20 votes; he gets one vote. The minimum property value required would depend on the jurisdiction, but I'm thinking $100 grand minimum federally. Provincial/municipal may need to be adjusted higher or lower accordingly.
Am I missing something, other than it never happening?
Fair point, but I think property requirements to vote could also be a useful incentive to get on the property ladder. It may also encourage people to either move to, or at least buy property in, less expensive parts of the country.
So a tradesman could still rent his apartment in Fort Mac while owning a couple acres in the woods somewhere, which would give him the right to vote federally, as well as in the province and municipality where his land is located. I think owning real property has a psychological effects; you have more skin in the game in terms of how your society operates.
Not a perfect system by any stretch, but I think it's better than what we have now.