Pharaos had to run a footrace to prove they were still fit to rule, meanwhile we sacrifice the security of our voting system so that the most feeble and feeble-minded among us can vote. In some countries even the most disinterested and uninformed in politics are legally compelled to vote. Then we complain how foolishly the public votes, and how easily they are swayed.
Hardly: History shows the repeated failure of the alternative, where only the "qualified" may vote.
Terrible people just corrupt the qualification-mechanism instead. That evil tactic tends to be more-effective and longer-lasting than trying to appeal to the lazy-stupid vote.
You think this is a fair characterization of what I wrote? That it not being worth sacrificing the security of a voting system to get the most disinterested and incapable to vote, is equivalent to some unstated "qualification" test?
> In some countries even the most disinterested and uninformed in politics are legally compelled to vote.
It depends on what you are after I guess, but it's almost certain that if the USA has compulsory voting Trump would not have won the last election. The people who don't usually vote; the feeble-minded as you call them, pull the vote toward the centre. Whatever Trump may be, he doesn't represent the centre of politics.
If the current USA polls are any indication, most USA voters are now wistfully thinking what might have been, had a system that forced those feeble-minded voters to get off their arses and vote been in place back in November.
What a farce.