On Thursday, September 1, 2011 10:35:34 PM UTC-7, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
Any welfare recipient should not be allowed to vote because it is a
conflict of interest in elections.

Would one say that a taxpayer should not be allowed to vote
for the same reason?

For a democracy to function, there can be no frivolity in the
matter of removing the right to vote. The inner conflict of any
voter on any issue is ... just a fact of life, not at all a
reason to rescind parts of citizenship.