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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Uuum, whose idea again was it to allow women to vote?

Or 18 year olds?

9 posted on 10/05/2012 8:46:47 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: unixfox

The feeling was that if you were old enough to be drafted to fight in the nation’s wars, you should be old enough to vote for the representatives who might decide if the nation does go to war.


17 posted on 10/05/2012 9:05:56 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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To: unixfox

Wait a minute! The first year that 18 year olds could vote, I helped Mr. Nixon get elected the second time.


32 posted on 10/05/2012 10:51:28 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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