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You'd have to restructure the whole west educationally speaking. People need to be thought how to think critically, to only believe things that have hard evidence, to be able to deduce that something is presented in a biased way. I honestly think a bias test should be a bare minimum for voting, I've been meaning to try and make one, but I'm not sure how you'd go about it. If people become good at noticing biased information, democracy would actually become pure, we'd vote based on facts, strongest arguments, and not based on the distorted "reality" that the elite present to us. The hegemony needs to be broken before any of this could become a reality sadly.
As u/grinnin_barrett points out bias testing requires someone or something making the test and making judgement calls on what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of bias.
At minimum voters need to be invested in the country so my personal direction is more along the lines of the 'service guarantees citizenship' model. I'm not so naive to think that this system doesn't have problems, but I do think that only citizens should be able to vote, and that there needs to be some kind of process of national service (whatever that looks like) to allow people to invest in the country and be rewarded for it.