Did you know the NJ state constitution forbids idiots to vote?
New Jersey is to consider cutting the word 'idiot' from its constitution so that people with some mental disabilities won't be barred from voting. State Senate President Richard Codey introduced a bill Monday that would remove language from the New Jersey constitution that was designed more than 150 years ago to prevent people suffering from mental illness or handicap from casting their vote in national, state or local elections.
Codey wants to eliminate a section that says "no idiot or insane person should enjoy the right of suffrage" and substitute with a reference to "a person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting."
I lived in New Jersey for most of my life. Trust me when I tell you that this clause didn't stop a single idiot from voting.
Oh, come on. You were all thinking it.
(Stolen from Omri.)