I am not an Idiot

According to what I read on the subject, near as I can tell, I'm not an idiot.

Historically "idiot" originally referred to a person lacking professional skill, a person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment. In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed).

Which, I guess, sort of explains why George W. is sometimes described by rudely inappropriate, disrespectful sorts, as an idiot.

According to Wikipedia, in several states idiots do not have the right to vote. Wikipedia does not say how the states decide someone is an idiot.

Did the word "idiot" derive from the word "id"?

According to Freud, "the id is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of this is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations ... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle."

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely "id-ridden", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and demands immediate satisfaction. This view equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual—often humorously—with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end.

I have known people like that.