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.
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.
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.
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.
Why? DC has voted dem every election for50 years.
Good luck with that!! We just had an election in Kentucky where fewer than in three ADULTS voted!!!
Oh, yes, I can see this already. BUSSED to the POLLS Straight from public school, where they have been educated to vote DEM!!! YEP YEP YEP
Skulls full of mush daily indoctrinated with liberalism. Sounds like Democrats’ wet dream.
Changing it to 18 was a really BAD idea in the first place. So why not double down?
After they find out exactly who (what?) they elected, they'll need a stiff shot of Jack. Maybe 2 or 3.
I’m 20, and I don’t think anyone under 25 should be able to vote...if not 30.
We don’t need quantity. We need quality. That means a license to vote only after passing a civics exam. Once every 4 years. On the dole? Sorry. No voting for you till you’re off.