>Mental health
If you're mentally unfit to contribute to society then I believe you to be unfit to weigh in on our governance.
>unemployment
I previously mentioned within x amount of years (where x is deemed reasonable) to account for short stints of unemployment. I do not want the long term unemployed weighing in on our governance.
>pregnancy that year
Already covered
>international travel but still a citizen
If you're not present and contributing to a society, in my view, you should absolutely not have a say in the governance of that society. In fact, I find the idea abhorrent.
>As soon as you start pointing to reasons that a government can/ can't take away your power to vote you are screwed as a populace.
Not really. Our species has survived and thrived for tens of thousands of years before widespread "voting" became available. The free-for-all in terms of access to voting is very modern, and very Western.
The modern West is, coincidentally enough, now in a freefall downward spiral from which it likely won't recover. We've went from high trust, well functioning societies where one person could go out to work in a blue collar job and support a family, to a very low trust society now hanging on to false premises like a house of cards, where even two people working full time can struggle to put food on the table.
Screwed as a populace? We're already frogs in the pot and that is with this fancy "everyone gets a say" notion in place.
>Not that i have much faith in the voting system anyways cause' who knows how they count the votes anyways.
My lack of faith in the voting system is that some entity, barely through puberty, highly influence-able, no skin in the game and therefore nothing to lose, can be told by some troglodyte celebrity to go vote for their (the celebrity's) candidate of choice and that vote is exactly equal to that of someone who contributes to society and invests their time in keeping on top of the issues that society faces.
Sorry, but when it comes to governing a society in the name of preserving and advancing its wellbeing, the above is nothing more than a joke and a cruel one at that.