On the other hand, the Soviet Union used to deny citizens basic rights by declaring them mentally unfit.
Mental disability could easily be used as a tool by a corrupt administration to prevent dissenters from voting.
How many stories have you read about tea partiers or conservatives being mentally unstable? They pop up time to time, and most people ignore them. But what if the government latched onto them and started using it as an excuse to prevent tea partiers to vote?
You make a great point but on the other hand whats to stop a deem organization like get out the vote from going to an asylum or hospital and signing up the truly mentally ill and voting for them absentee? I think its a real 2 edged sword.
“Mental disability could easily be used as a tool by a corrupt administration to prevent dissenters from voting.”
It is also a tool used to eliminate people. Mental incapacity drains resources from those who are not incapacitated.
I am willing to bet somewhere in Obamacare there is a provision for this.
Then I cannot vote.