text: I'm calling BS on your claim to have graduated with a degree in poly sci from ANY university, let alone Ivy League.  It's not possible that you could graduate with such a degree and not be familiar with voter ignorance, any more than someone can have a PhD in Bioengineering and not having been familiar with the Theory of Evolution.  It makes no sense.  It must explain why you have to rely on Google scholar for your information on this subject -- because this is not known background information for you for some reason.
  
  What makes this most bizarre is the fact that you must, on some level, be aware of the existence of ULTRA ignorant voters, the "know nothings" as described by political scientists.  These are the people who can't even name the current president, some 10-20% of the VOTING population.  Do you imagine non-voters to be more informed than the average voter?  If not, you are literally advocating increasing voter ignorance by definition.