Comment by mrguyorama
3 years ago
Having to BUY a vote explicitly removes any consideration of it being any form of democracy. Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity.
3 years ago
Having to BUY a vote explicitly removes any consideration of it being any form of democracy. Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity.
> Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity
There are plenty of "democracies" where suffrage depends on one having the appropriate citizenship.
Full disclosure: I have permanent residency - and pay my taxes - in a country where I'm neither allowed to stand for election nor allowed to vote...
Indeed, Democracy originated in an environment where suffrage was highly limited.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/democracy-...
I did say "dysfunctional".
But yeah, historically voting rights in many places were tied to land ownership. (And also genital arrangement)