Posted on 03/09/2017 4:46:21 PM PST by davikkm
Stung by recent election defeats, Democrats are leading the charge to lower the voting age to 17, with a little help from liberal billionaire George Soros. In California, Democratic legislators introduced this week a landmark bill, ACA 10, that would give the Golden State the nation’s youngest statewide voting age by lowering the threshold from 18 to 17 in the name of reversing the slide in voter turnout. “Young people are our future,” said Democratic Assembly member Evan Low, the measure’s sponsor. “Lowering the voting age will help give them a voice in the democratic process and instill a lifelong habit of voting.” The proposal comes as the most ambitious of a host of efforts to chip away at the 18-year-old voting age as Democrats seek to bring into the fold younger voters, who traditionally support more liberal causes and candidates than do their elders. “It is a transparent ploy to pad the Democratic vote,” said John J. Pitney Jr., American politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, referring to the California bill.
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Voting should be limited to 21+, Tax Paying - no welfare, Citizens.
Let’s see, we lowered the voting age to 18 because of the draft and soldiers service, despite having input. The drinking age was raise back to 21. The draft is gone. All service is voluntary. I really don’t believe people before the age of 25 really care about the consequences of their vote. Most are uninterested and uninformed, and swayed in the last couple of months before an election. They are more interested in other things than our Republic.
Now they want to lower it to 17. What’s the rationale? Why not 15, or 12. They are only looking for more young sensitive, compassionate, snow flakes that they can manipulate.
This reminds me of the argument for a minimum raise. Why not $100 and hour, instead of $15. All prices react to economic conditions. They just want to artificially mandate what they perceive as justice, whether it leads to the destruction of our economy or not.
The voting age for federal elections was lowered to 18 by a constitutional amendment (the 26th), but I don’t see how a state could be prevented from making the voting age 17 to vote for electors for President or for members of Congress, as long as the same age was required to vote for the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
I think Herbert Hoover expressed the view that the voting age should be raised to 24.
I remember that song and the Movie. I’m getting old, but I remember believing we should vote at 14! Course I was about 14 at the time!
Insanity to think someone 17 has enough knowledge to vote. Yikes!
Hey Soros. Stop messing with other people’s sh*t!
Go home and recount one of your Krugerrand Gold Coin collections. Check your sapphire and gold bullion futures. Those midnight Margin Calls always give you a thrill. Better get ready.
If I were George Soros, and I wanted to be as loony as possible, while still trying to make sense out of the un-sensible, I would take his idea even further, and call for ALL citizens of ALL ages, including the newborns, to be granted voting rights. After all, whatever laws and bills and regulations are in existence or come about in the future, will affect all of the kids and children too, now and in the future. So, shouldn’t kids and babies have the same rights as adults?. So, imagine school teachers taking their students to the voting booths and instructing them on who to vote for (after lecturing the kids parents, of course).
It’s as sensible as Soro’s idea, where he would take those with the least amount of knowledge on the issues and get them to vote with their hearts, and not with their brains.
These people are so transparent. I guess they know that by the time the next election rolls around the illegals and dead people will be off the lists. Gotta make up ground somewhere.
17 Year olds are not allowed to buy a rifle in California.
If they cannot be trusted with a rifle, why would we trust them with the vote, which is much more dangerous?
“The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account”
The age is 18
The federal government and state governments are not allowed to deny someone the right to vote who is at least 18 on account of age. But I don’t see how that prevents a state from setting a lower age as the minimum if it so chooses.
what the hell is his issue anyway
His “open society” is essentially “Brave New World”, with him pulling puppet strings in the background.
There is.a bill in the Oregon legislature to lower the voting age to 16.
LOL Blast from the past...
What? They don’t count aborted fetuses?
No doubt, that plot is already afoot.
Needs to be raised to 28 or at least when you are a taxpayer
I wish it could be limited to people who have to pay a rental or mortgage payment each month.
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I’m happy to see that you included renters in that statement. I don’t rent but I do understand that renters pay property taxes because I understand elementary economics. Unlike many I’ve seen posting on this topic.
I acknowledge that the U.S. Government is firmly opposed to assassinations. I wonder why the U.S. doesn’t select someone to never ever pursue an attempt on the wellbeing of this despicable bag of guts. They should never consider anything like poison or tiny darts or little tiny drones.
NO!!!!!!!!
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