Votting should be treated like a privilege, or forfeited as a right. Take for example the judges retained when bar associations give good reasons not to do so. If someone has not researched, they should not vote.

I understand that perspective … but my perspective is that an uninformed vote is actually worse than no vote … because a person would be voting for the wrong reasons.

Not voting at all is worse because then the citizen is completely disconnected from the democratic process.