[right-wing agnostic]

I am ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED to lowering the voting age./rwa

[manc]

voting should be done at age 21, you can’t drink , but you can decide an election. That doesn’t even make sense, nor does letting kids vote who know nothing of the world

[wideawake]

Social scientists advocate voting at age 16.

Social scientists also say that 16 year olds should not be held responsible for crimes the way adults are, because their pre-frontal cortices are not fully developed yet, and so they lack the judgment and impulse control that adults have.

Pick one, social scientists, pick one.

[tje]

No..16 is just stupid.

[BenLurkin]

Should we let 16 year olds vote?

Oh

Hell

No

[luvbach1]

No, 1000 times no! We need tests (intelligence and citizenship) before anyone should be allowed to vote. We see the terrible results of uniformed voting (and poor candidates).

[entropy12]

Only if they pay taxes.

Why do we allow non-tax paying adults to vote?
They will always vote for politicians who will handout our tax money to the freeloaders.

[Professional Engineer]

Most 18 year old “adults” are too immature to really understand what they are voting for. Sixteen? No way.

[mountainlion]

What could possibly go wrong??

[all the best]

We already have too many people voting. Let them start supporting themselves and being subject to paying taxes.

[trisham]

What a mistake.

[workerbee]

I say raise the voting age to 30.

Seriously.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I would normally be opposed to letting 16 year olds vote. I would be in favor, however, of allowing 13 year olds and above to vote provided we do away with this idea of adolescents not being responsible for their actions and we try all those individuals 13 and up who commit crimes as adults and sentence them as adults.

[hadaclueonce]

No!

I think it should be limited to property owners.

One needs skin in the game.

[stars & stripes forever]

They should vote when they are off their parent’s insurance policies.

[Tammy8]

What is the age Obama care considers to be an adult, no longer eligible to be on mommy and daddy’s insurance? Is it 26, 27? That should be the new voting age. Maybe by then some will have figured it out.

[kaehurowing]

They shouldn’t have lowered it to 18.

[Fungi]

No.

[Figment]

Voting age should be raised to 25, and no women voters. putting on my nomex suit

[Vendome]

Voting at 16?

Uhmmmm, sure and you can make them fully, wholly and solely responsible for contracts.

They are fully emancipated.

They can smoke.

They can drink.

They can shoot foreigners in wars.

Statutory rape would only apply to those under 16 years of age.

they could filmed in certain provacative situations.

Yeah, cuz most 16 year olds are ready to handle life, its vagaries and stark consequences.

/S

[Jack Hydrazine]

Five year olds...definitely five year olds!