A moderate position on democratic competence might hold that voters should do the following: •Voters should act on widely available, good information, if not always the best information available anywhere. •They should avoid mass superstition and systematic error. •They should evaluate information in a moderately rational, unbiased way—if not with the perfection of a vulcan, at least with the degree of rationality a first-year college student brings to thinking about introductory organic chemistry. •Voters should be aware of their limits, and thus always look for more and better information on any high-stakes decision. As we’ve seen, most