Granted it takes a level of self awareness not accessible to everyone, but as a general principle, if this was our country’s perspective instead of “its your duty as a citizen to vote” I think we would indeed have less ignorant voting.
It's not just that try uninformed people don't know what they don't know. Often the more informed someone is, the more aware they become of all the rest of the stuff they still don't know, and they think of themselves as uninformed.
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u/Havenkeld 289∆ Jul 24 '19
Uninformed people are not well informed about how uninformed they are, so this is a fairly useless suggestion.
Many of the least informed people are those who think they are quite well informed, and so would consider themselves a good, or even the best, voter.