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Should Sixteen Year Olds Vote In Federal Elections?
3/15.2019 | MosesKnows

Posted on 03/15/2019 8:31:51 AM PDT by MosesKnows

Should Sixteen Year Olds Vote In Federal Elections?


The Constitution left voting privileges up to the states. What age, sex, or race allowed to vote was a decision each state was free to legislative.

I recall the argument in favor of allowing eighteen year olds to vote in Federal Elections. The arguments had merit and the nation ratified the 26th Amendment.

Section 1

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 of age.

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The amendment is not the law. Section 1 is not legislation. Section 2 adds the congressional legislative power that was lacking.

Now discussions are about sixteen year olds voting in Federal Elections and the arguments lack merit mainly of what I have learned about teenagers’ mental development.

What I learned that causes me to disapprove of the notion of sixteen year olds voting was a video from the World Economic Forum answering the question, “Why Are Teenagers Rude?”

I won’t share my reasoning at this time but I’ll share the link so you can form your own opinion of sixteen year olds voting in Federal Elections.

Why Teenagers Seem Rude and Selfish

I posted this because of the way Congress has turned their legislative responsibilities over to the agencies engineers and scientist.

What is the science behind mental development, voting, and the acceptance of responsibility?


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To: MosesKnows
Kids can have mock elections in their schools. I've often been of the opinion that we should have two federal elections-- one for a president and congress; one for a monarch and privy council. You only get to pick one.

The monarch and privy council would be allocated a budget commensurate with their vote total and could divide the goodies as they saw fit. The libtards could look to them for pork, college grants and the like and leave our elections alone.

41 posted on 03/15/2019 8:53:44 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MosesKnows

Think of yourself at 16, is the answer still yes? Think of the average demonicrat at 16, now answer truthfully.


42 posted on 03/15/2019 8:54:32 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Don Corleone
They are generally too uninformed to vote in high school elections.

As a former high school student body president, I resemble that remark!

43 posted on 03/15/2019 8:54:53 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MosesKnows
How about:

"Section 1 The right of taxpaying citizens of the United States and their family members...

44 posted on 03/15/2019 8:55:14 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: MosesKnows

Only if they can also buy a new M4 at normal AR15 prices.


45 posted on 03/15/2019 8:55:57 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Mom MD

“”And property owner requirement added-——”


Can’t agree with that one.

My late mother never owned property yet she would walk through a blizzard to vote.(She never drove either.)

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46 posted on 03/15/2019 8:56:13 AM PDT by Mears
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To: al_c

“No. Next question.”

At the ripe old age of 16, I was a seaman serving on a Destroyer off the coast of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It always grated on me that I could be in the military and still not be old enough to vote.


47 posted on 03/15/2019 8:56:16 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: OrangeHoof
Democrats are desperate to add as many voters as possible by any means possible.

Exactly. It is perhaps more of a hoax than the slogan, "Diversity is our strength."

It was one of the items of the early campaigns of Italian socialist/fascist Mussolini. What could he have been thinking of?

1. Should 16 year olds be allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages?
2. Should 16 year olds be granted concealed weapon permits?
3. Should 16 year olds be allowed to gamble in Nevada?
4. Should 16 year olds be allowed to decide who will be the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation in the world?

48 posted on 03/15/2019 8:58:17 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Socialists own the House, if they take the Senate it's lights out, they will "Ballsy" Ford a R pres.)
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To: MosesKnows

No. 21 and a net income tax payer. (Don’t give me this “we all pay sales tax” stuff)


49 posted on 03/15/2019 9:05:39 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Perseverando

In the old days, saloons couldn’t be open while the polls were.


50 posted on 03/15/2019 9:06:50 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: MosesKnows

No - never. Raise the voting age to 35 and deny the vote to anyone who doesn’t actually pay in money in taxes.


51 posted on 03/15/2019 9:08:02 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: MosesKnows

Raised...to 25 minimum. No one on welfare are eligible until they have been off it for 13 months


52 posted on 03/15/2019 9:17:01 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: MosesKnows

No and here is the reasoning that the Libturds have laid out as a justification.
1. Libturds are pushing for long gun purchases to be raised to 21 because anything younger is due to their mental state not being fully developed. I agree and all things appropriate should be raised to 21 as a minimum. Better yet since children up to 26 can remain in their parents healthcare because they are not responsible enough to manage their affairs we should take that into consideration.
2. This age raise would apply to anything and everything. Driving, marriage, ability to obtain a loan, drinking alcohol, you name it. Make one standard and adhere to it.
3. This would cause some grief to parents but for the good of the nation let’s be realistic. If a young adult is too young to drink or possess a handgun they must surely be too young to make a sound decision on the direction of the nation, state and local governments.
4. Military service should be the one thing that could be impacted the most from this but if we are realists. There will be pain in this area also. There should be a conscription process starting at 21 where every able bodied young adult is placed in a pool and a lottery is drawn. No paying off the draft board. No draft deferments. You serve for a minimum of four years. This captures the whole pool of eligible young adults. Volunteering for service would still be an option over conscription.
5. The only deviation from this would be with parental consent. Nothing lower than the age of 18 would be considered legal or binding.


53 posted on 03/15/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by Slingwing
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To: MosesKnows

Okay, no poll tax test.

But I say you shouldn’t vote until you are responsible for your own healthcare costs.

Be that off your parents’ insurance at 26, the pay-as-you-go healthcare roulette method, or relaxing on the Medicare you paid into for 40 years.

Before that, no voting!


54 posted on 03/15/2019 9:27:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MosesKnows
The age for eligible voters should be raised to 21 years of age.

Certain classes of people should be ineligible to vote regardless of age. These are:


55 posted on 03/15/2019 9:31:53 AM PDT by flamberge
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To: MosesKnows

NO.


56 posted on 03/15/2019 9:34:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MosesKnows

HELL NO !!!


57 posted on 03/15/2019 9:36:25 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: OttawaFreeper
Seems a little contradictory when they also want the age for legal firearms purchases to be raised to 21 and to keep the age for drinking a beer at that age as well.

They are even stupider than I thought if they think they can actually control a teenager just because of their school indoctrination program.

58 posted on 03/15/2019 9:37:18 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: MosesKnows

NO!

16 =:

1. Incomplete education

2. Lack of experience


59 posted on 03/15/2019 9:42:26 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Major Matt Mason
No, and 21 should be the minimum voting age.

The late Russel Baker, the NYT humorist for many years, wrote that no one under 35 should read Moby Dick. (I took his advice and picked it up as I was then just past 35 and it was a great read. I couldn't even manage the Classic Comic-book version when the government educators thought I should read it.) His point, of course, was that one needed those years to be able maybe understand it. And what is true for Moby Dick is also true for politics and government.

RAISE THE VOTING AGE TO 35 !

ML/NJ

60 posted on 03/15/2019 9:43:31 AM PDT by ml/nj
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