Posted on 03/11/2019 11:25:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
If you're 16 in this country, you can drive, get a job and pay taxes — even marry or buy a gun, in some states. But you can't vote in national elections.
Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is trying to change that.
The freshman lawmaker introduced her first amendment in Congress Tuesday. It's a proposal to lower the national voting age from 18 to 16.
Pressley's amendment is being added to a sweeping, election-reform bill in the House of Representatives. That bill is in the hands of the House Rules Committee, chaired by Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern.
And in Boston, city councilors introduced their own measure Wednesday — which would lower the voting age...
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I hear you. Those social workers are deadly. Politicians, too.
But then how will the zombo-Americans get up and vote on election nights? That’s so disenfranchising./s
ALL LIEberals (and many Republicans!) bear close watching!
They mean to do us great harm!
We’d better disenFRanchise EVERY ONE OF THEM, if we know what is good for us!
EVERY illegal vote cancels out a legitimate vote!
Likewise, EVERY illegal alien in America dilutes your voice in the House and Senate, since it is RESIDENTS that are counted in the Census, NOT CITIZENS!
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