“The voter competence test used to be property ownership - if you could accumulate a few assets, you could vote. “
Not all bad, but I think that an information test would be superior to a means test. People, reasonably bright people, can not be property owners for a variety of reasons. Information is freely available. Consume it, and be able to make some small amount of sense of it, and you should be allowed to vote, without regard to race, gender, or social class.
Have you ever heard of an “educated moron” ? I believe there’s a surfeit of them clogging up the halls of academia.
Personally, I think only those people who are willing AND able to unclog a toilet should be allowed to vote.