Posted on 11/05/2015 12:05:36 PM PST by yoe
It's not uncommon to hear about low voter turnout in some elections. But some lawmakers believe getting students involved at a young age and educating them on the issues will help those numbers.
( Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2015.)
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5dc.com ...
DC could choose to allow 16 year olds to vote in LOCAL elections, but they can’t change the voting age for Presidential elections, because that is a federal law that would require a constitutional amendment to alter.
Given the state of the public schools in DC, it’s unlikely most 16-year-olds in the district can read.
I couldn’t vote until I was 21.
I was having too much fun prior to that time to think of politics.
16 is ridiculous.
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Let them vote when they pay for their own health insurance (without subsidies). That should kill the non-military Millennial vote.
>>I was having too much fun prior to that time to think of politics.
They don’t want them to think...but you already knew that. ;-)
NO FREAKING WAY!!!!
Can’t you just see them busing these little farts off to the polling booths to vote just like their union teacher told them to.
You’d get close to 100% voting out of this group, and about 95% of it Leftist oriented.
Would any of them be able to read the ballot?
They have little skin in the game
Even 18 year olds do
21 at the minimum, more like 25 when people should work and pay taxes.
Youngsters are so naive and easily taken advantage of, just like the other Dem constituencies
What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
I guess they can argue that if they are old enough to carry an illegal weapon, sell crack cocaine, pimp out D’Anesha and her little friends, steal from the whited devil, and murder fellow blacks, they are old enough to vote.
There are no Federal laws about how States choose their electors (nobody “votes for President”), and the Amendment granting DC 3 electors says Congress makes the rule on how they are to be chosen.
Ted Cruz’s Michigan Campaign chair is starting to look pretty good as a education secretary. He’s pushing to “fix” social studies.
http://www.senatorpatrickcolbeck.com/proposed-social-studies-standards/
His proposed revisions are a pretty good start.
http://www.senatorpatrickcolbeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/New-Standards-Review-Table.pdf
I absolutely think the 23rd amendment which gave electors to DC was wrong; it is not a state, it is a federal district, and should have zero representation in congress and zero electors, not the same as the least populated state.
If there were ever a convention of the states, that’d be one of the many things I’d push to repeal.
If people don’t like it, MOVE to a state.
The voting age needs to be *raised* to 30.
Mandate that the voter have a real job (NOT Government Service)
No one votes who receives welfare or income assistance
(Social Security exempted)
Mandatory Literacy Testing
They usually come in during the busiest times and slow up traffic while I'm pulled off the floor to call the courthouse and help them out.
One would think that if they had time to learn about all the left-wing platitudes taught in college, they could take a little time to find out the basics of election law and registration requirements.
Or at least find an precinct election judge willing to break the rules for them because I won't.
I believe you are correct, and it really doesn't have much of an impact, since DC is totally dem, and always has been.
Why? DC has voted dem every election for50 years.
I'm not sure that's right (or, if it is, it's only right for D.C.).
The Constitution says that citizens over 18 can't be denied the right to vote based on age (Amend. XXVI), but the right to vote in federal elections is otherwise set by state law (Art. I, sec. 2, cl. 1; Art. III, sec. 1, cl. 2). The Constitution didn't grant women the right to vote until the 19th Amendment, but some states allowed women to vote before that, and they voted in federal lections.
So a state could (if it were stupid enough to do so) could grant 16-year-olds the right to vote in federal elections. I'm not sure if that would apply to D.C., though, because its right to vote for president is subject to Congressional regulation (Amend. XXIII, sec. 1, cl. 1).
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