It’s a tradition.
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”
I know Chesterton didn’t mean it the way I am twisting the quote but, since we live in bizarre times, I’ll go ahead and twist it anyway.
Yes, indeed, that is twisted. If you we could give votes to the men and women who fought and gave their lives for our freedom. That really would be something.