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Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16
The Hill ^ | 03/14/19 03:19 PM EDT | JOHN BOWDEN

Posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrat, House Leader, Pelosi is going nuts, Dems dying on the vine by the actions of their own, are in full panic mode to get voters any voters, Babies, Kids, Teens, Illegals, Radicals, Socialists, Communists.

Why? Blacks, Hispanics, Jews leaving them by the hundreds of thousands. And to boot, the 536 Candidates they have running for POTUS in 2020 are neither the brightest or sharpest knives in the drawer. Beto “The Freak Do Nothing, Deadbeat Congressman” O’Rourke....you gotta be kidding me.

Please Democrats, do not tinkle down my back and tell me it’s raining!!!


121 posted on 03/15/2019 7:33:17 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Track9

Democrats do voter fraud by voting the people who don’t show up to vote.

It’s why they need lots of names on voter rolls... lots of new people who won’t show up to vote.

(Just in case you were wondering why we lost every congressional race that was ‘too close to call - the ones within the margin of error’...)


122 posted on 03/15/2019 7:49:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are attacking Ivanka & Jared ostensibly on security clearances - reality is antisemitism)
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To: fwdude
You make a good point. But I wonder if the military is subject to the 14th Amendment. When I was active Navy (75-86), there were many restrictions on the 1st Amendment, on or off duty. There were military restrictions regarding other Bill of Rights amendments. Sorry, too long ago to remember the other restrictions.

So your theory may not apply, but there is always some Judge who issues an injunction to say otherwise nowadays. Obama ignored many; Trump doesn't.

I'm still flabbergasted (I'm that old -ha)that it took a USSC ruling to allow the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to ban mentally disturbed transgenders to serve. Believe there is one lawsuit still outstanding, but with the Supremes ruling, it is going nowhere.

While the Founding Fathers could not foresee the future and could have been more specific on certain issues, the Constitution couldn't be more clear that the President/CIC has ultimate authority over the Armed Forces. That said, I'm not good with the Congressional "War Powers Act" that gave the President the ability to invade without a declaration of war.

Sidenote: Once Congress funds the military, I believe the CIC can use the funds for any national security reason. Think WALL!

123 posted on 03/15/2019 7:54:30 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

Hey, Nan? Why not have the just-born babies vote Democrat using a footprint - right before you kill them? *SPIT*

Just when I think I can’t, I loathe these people even more!


124 posted on 03/15/2019 8:07:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

16 year olds to vote??? These fools cannot pass a drivers test much less figure out who can make decisions as important as to whom to vote for. I could not vote until 21 if I can remember back that far. That is the most stupid thing I have hear these fools come up with recently. Next 3d graders will be enlisted to vote and allow mommy and daddy to make the decision for them.


125 posted on 03/15/2019 8:09:49 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Russia and Putin didn't make me vote for Trump, HILLARY DID!!!)
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To: Williams

Naw. She passed evil and nut case way, way, way, way back.


126 posted on 03/15/2019 8:11:06 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Russia and Putin didn't make me vote for Trump, HILLARY DID!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“because when kids are in school, they’re so interested, they’re so engaged.”

She forgot to add, "...they're so easily influenced by popular culture, by media, and by their peers. They're so uninvolved in paying taxes of any kind--income, property, school, gasoline, etc. They're still so out of touch with adult life when political decisions actually impact them..."

127 posted on 03/15/2019 8:27:22 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: All

This is the beginning of dropping the age of consent laws.


128 posted on 03/15/2019 8:27:34 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: A Navy Vet
While the Founding Fathers could not foresee the future and could have been more specific on certain issues...

I don't fault them for failing to see the absolute insanity that has engulfed a critical mass of society in this modern age. Who could have believed in a millions years that open, proud homosexual sodomy would be lionized in society 200 years later?

We might as well try to imagine heading off euthanasia of unwanted 5-year-olds today, just in case it happens.

129 posted on 03/15/2019 9:29:30 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course you would back it moron..How much money would you pay them for voting democrat..I just hope if that ever comes to past the child is told to read everything except liberal literature on the person..that’s what I told my grandson..My children did not take government until they were in the 12th grade..


130 posted on 03/15/2019 9:30:13 AM PDT by PLD
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should raise it to 25. Or, lower it to 16 but in order to do that, mandate every voter show up with a valid Federal Issued Voting ID Card. Charge $10 to get the card issued. New revenue for the Fed.


131 posted on 03/15/2019 9:45:58 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Cboldt

“Universal sufrage is a societal death sentence, regardless of age.”

Amen, amen, universal suffrage inevitably leads to universal suffering. Unfortunately it takes some maturity to realize that.


132 posted on 03/15/2019 9:47:04 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I need some green first and then we'll talk a new deal!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

But they are not developed or mature for that until 2. /s


133 posted on 03/15/2019 10:56:44 AM PDT by matt04
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s pretty telling that these little nannies want to baby our teenagers, give them insurance until they’re 26, and raise the legal age of everything except voting.


134 posted on 03/15/2019 12:56:04 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Your average liberal couldn’t pass a 7th grade civics class, they’re not teaching our kids any better.


135 posted on 03/15/2019 12:57:58 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As a retired High school educator, I have to observe that this stupid suggestion is because she obviously self identifies with the infantile mentality, instant self gratification culture of the target audience.
136 posted on 03/15/2019 1:09:09 PM PDT by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

16? That is so cool. When I was 16, I would have voted for Elvis or Ricky Nelson. That woman really has SFB.


137 posted on 03/15/2019 4:15:11 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Why stop there?

Why shouldn’t all the peoples of the world vote in US elections?

After all, US election results affect them, too!


138 posted on 03/15/2019 4:24:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Funny no one has replied to your question yet.

Wiki sums it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

They tried doing this with legislation in 1970 but it was shot down by the Supreme Court. Then later went through the proper procedure and became the 26th Amendment.

It’s not going to happen, not yet anyway. Not even if the dems get the Senate and the Prez, as the states need to ratify it.


139 posted on 03/15/2019 5:42:24 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: redfreedom

Thanks for replying. There’s some interesting background leading up to the 26th.


140 posted on 03/15/2019 5:54:05 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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