NYT – Turning 16, for many teenagers, means finally driving a car without supervision or starting the college search. Now, a new campaign is hoping to add the ability to vote in local elections to the milestones of that age.
The campaign, called Vote16USA, which will be announced on Wednesday, aims to lower the voting age to 16 from 18 to spur civic engagement by younger Americans. But the push, by a nonpartisan group based in New York called Generation Citizen, which seeks to promote youth participation in politics, is igniting a debate about voter competency, adolescent decision making and whether allowing younger people to vote is the best way to politically engage teenagers. more here
At birth everyone will be registered as a liberal. There vote will be automatic.
This time of the year I remember my favorite song:
I HATE PEOPLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6WXCvNGms
This brilliant idea deserves a middle finger.
This brilliant idea deserves a middle finger not a debate!
Misdirection.
The electoral system is already as corrupt as last week’s Chicago corpse. But a “debate” about lowering the voting age will keep people’s focus off the real problems.
That’s about the right age to become fully indoctrinated by your high school civics teach, because he’s dreamy. Pick your sexual orientation.
Nobody who is dependent on tgeir parents should be able to vote. And that includes people whose daddy is Wic McSnap.
Between amnesty for illegals, refugees from the middle east and soon kids who’ve never paid a tax in their life the democratic party will soon be the official party of the U.S.
Screw that, raise it to 25! If you can’t rent a car, you can’t vote!
Time for this old chestnut:
If you’re not a liberal when you are twenty, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re forty, you have no brain.
Best spelling of “tgeir” ever
No more DRAFT?! No more reason to have it at 18. RAISE IT back to 21.
True story. Many years ago I asked a 16 year old who she would vote for president. She said she liked Bill Clinton because he was so corrupt. Raise the age to 30.
It should be 26 after all they still are children according to obeecare. Most are still at home,exclusions for Military ONLY.
Seems to me the voting age needs to be raised by 16 years!!
Make the voting age the same as that required to retire and file for Social Security, and you’ll never have another Liberal elected ever again.
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Democrats only exist because there are so many uninformed voters. Lowering the age is just another ploy to bloat democrat voter rolls. Democrats are worried that if Republicans take charge there is a possibility dems will only be able to vote once, dead people will no longer be able to vote at all, and motor voters will no longer be able to vote in neighboring states after voting in their home states.