Bill To Lower Voting Age To 14 Passes Senate Committee

VacavilleNews.com ^ | 2:02 am PT, Friday, May 7, 2004 | Bay City News Service

[visualops]

a Democrat politician will do almost anything to ensure or strengthen the odds of his reelection

[azhenfud]

"Maybe Kalifornia will fall off one day......"

Or rot off. "Califoreignia, there you go!"

[DoughtyOne]

Why not seven year olds with one/tenth of a vote? I've got a better idea. Anyone stupid enough to support this idea, from a state leadership position should lose their right to vote, and hold office.

[festus]

;Oh no. Now the Olsen twins will be able to vote.

Twice !

[Teacher317]

Of course, the day after it is passed, the 1/4 and 1/2 thing are dropped for Equal Protection claims. The Dems truly are desperate.

[blackdog]

And exactly how will 14 year olds get to the polls to exercise this new right? Oh, for the sake of convenience they will make them vote at school...Ruh-Roh!

[kellynla]

Proof positive that the idiots we have in Sacramento don't have the sense God gave a jackass.

Instead of using their time on more productive issues like reducing the cost of state government, lowering our taxes and balancing the state budget, these morons waste the time and money of California taxpayers with this stupid nonsense.

[macrahanish #1]

I've asked groups of kids to name their two United States Senators. I've probably asked this of 200+ kids.
About 10 of them could name one. NONE of them could name both. Why should the vote be extended to allow voting by people who display this ignorance?

[macrahanish #1]

I clicked on the link you provided.
My eyes melted.

[Kozak]

Dogs should get 1/8 of a vote, and cats 1/12th.

Yeah but mountain lions and sea lions should get 2 votes each as endangered species.

This idea has great potential to redress former injustice. Just think, 3 votes for each Indian, 2 for each black instead of reparations. Mexicans legal or illegal 2.5 for stealing California from Mexico after they stole it from the Indians. Chinese 1.5 for past discrimination. the mind boggles. They could have a computer program where you input your vital statistics and it calculates your vote based on age, gender, nationality, race, sexual orientation, income, education, ethnicity and disability. Just think the ideal demographic could be a black/ Indian, Hispanic surnamed, transgendered lesbian unemployed high school drop out confined to a wheel chair. What a Country....

[sarasota]

The capital of planet california is surely hollyweird.

[No Dems 2004]

I agree it's so ridiculous you shouldn't even have to talk about it. But, hey, it's California!! I think it has to do with trying to get more Hispanics to vote.

[SpookBrat]

marking

[DoctorMichael]

If we are going to change things, lets do it in a more rational manner. How about...................

.........Voters should be defined as:

Only those who either/or.............

(1) OWN PROPERTY,

(2) and/or, have SERVED in the US Military.

PERIOD.

[Reactionary]

Of course it's a way to cash in on ignorance. Democrats understand, of course, that the young are uninformed idiots, prone to vote for democrats.

[Mulder]

The collapse of the Republic continues.

Expect to see more of this 'third world' crap as the influx of immigrants from sub-cultures with no understanding of Western common law or individial Rights continues, aided by our "leaders" in Washington.

[Unicorn]

Boy they must be smoking some strong stuff out there.

[Fixit]

This guy should be the poster boy for making the legislature a part time affair.

Gov. Schwarzenegger Wants a Part-Time Legislature

I want to make the Legislature a part-time Legislature," the governor said. "Spending so much time in Sacramento, without anything to do, then out of that comes strange bills. I like them when they're scrambling and they really have to work hard. Give them a short period of time. Then good work gets done, rather than hanging. That's when they start getting creative with things.

[mtbopfuyn]

'It's great that the senator realizes that young people have political opinions and deserve political representation.'

They don't have political opinions and do not deserve political representation. Their parents are responsible for them and make their decisions... or should but this is CA. Obviously if their voice is only worth 25%, then the lawmakers are admitting they aren't smart enough to make mature decisions and as such have a full vote. The other day I asked my 7 and 8th grade students if they thought the bill was a good idea and of course they were all for it. However, when I asked them if they trusted their friends to make informed decisions that would affect their lives each and one immediately realized how bad this bill would be. I don't suppose the CA legislature bothered asking kids if they even wanted the right to vote.

[GiveEmDubya]

::Slaps forehead::

This has to be the dumbest thing California has ever done. And that's saying a lot.