SHOULD every American adult have the right to vote?

In the wake of new voting laws requiring various processes and methods of identification be utilized, I can’t help but come back to the issue that is NEVER openly discussed: The idea that simply being a living American adult allows you to vote. Should anyone able to present an ID at the polls be allowed this privilege? Are we missing the bigger issue?

Many accuse these laws of attempting to suppress the vote, and my inner response in some ways is “maybe we should”. Not on the basis of race or creed, but on the basis of understanding of and stake in the game.

I genuinely don’t believe that voting souls be a guaranteed right, and it clearly was never intended to be by the founders. Now admittedly they had flawed and in some reprehensible ideas about who should be allowed to vote, but the premise that everyone had a right to would have been entirely foreign to them.

I don’t know what the criteria should be, but I don’t believe Susan who is a junior studying Russian literature and doesn’t know how many people are on the Supreme Court or how many senators each state has probably shouldn’t be voting.