Political Equality and Epistemic Constraints on Voting

The idea that voting procedures should be accessible to every citizen whowishes to participate is a fundamental principle of democracy. In recentyears, however, this idea has been challenged. As part of a resurgent skep-ticism about the epistemic qualities of democracy, some political philoso-phers have argued that participation in voting practices should be madeconditional, through specifically designed formal mechanisms or proce-dures, upon having a sufficient level of political competence. Call thesemechanismsepistemic constraints on voting(ECV).