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Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16
The Hill ^ | 03/14/19 03:19 PM EDT | JOHN BOWDEN

Posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in the U.S.

Pelosi said Thursday that lowering the voting age would drive interest in politics among younger Americans who are learning about the subject in high school. The Speaker said that changing the voting age to 16 would help drive a higher level of voter awareness and turnout.

"I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16," Pelosi said. "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about government, to be able to vote."

Pelosi's comments Thursday echoed those she has made previously, including in a 2015 New York Times interview in which the Speaker said she was "all for" lowering the voting age.

Pelosi told the Times that she wanted to expand voter access to 16 and 17-year-olds “because when kids are in school, they’re so interested, they’re so engaged.”

The California congresswoman supported a local ballot initiative in her home district of San Francisco in 2016 that would have lowered the voting age in municipal elections to 16, known as Proposition F, but the measure was defeated by single digits at the ballot box.

Members of Congress voted down an amendment to the Democrats' voting rights bill last Thursday that sought to lower the federal voting age to 16, an effort led by freshman Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). Almost 130 lawmakers voted in favor of the amendment, which was described by advocates as a first of its kind proposal to make it to the...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: again; botox; california; capture; elections; fraud; nancypelosi; pelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; teens; voting; votingage
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Hey kids, vote for crazy granma !!!


141 posted on 03/15/2019 7:46:20 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16 "

Apparently demRATs need more than just the overwhelming support of imaginary people.
142 posted on 03/15/2019 10:37:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: null and void

Let’s just have Landowners/Property Owners Vote...


143 posted on 03/15/2019 11:43:13 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

I’m all for it. :0.
Lowering the voting age to 16 would do for democrats what raising the voting age to 35 or 40 would do for republicans.
With no real world experience and huge college debt looming, free college and health care sounds wonderful. Then after 20 years of paying into the system and seeing how wasteful it all really is you move to the right and become much more conservative.


144 posted on 03/16/2019 1:33:34 AM PDT by freedomlver
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To: Don Corleone

Better lower the age in which child support payments end too. Here in NY they go to age 21...so we have “children” voting for three years.


145 posted on 03/16/2019 3:21:10 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mo"tther's actual parenting of children)
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To: Vince Ferrer

and end “child” support payments to mommykins on their behalf.


146 posted on 03/16/2019 3:23:21 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mo"tther's actual parenting of children)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

and mom should not be receiving child support until they turn 21...the way it is in most BLUE states...even 24.
No riding on daddy’s health insurance to age 29 (you read that right...Kuomo Kountry)


147 posted on 03/16/2019 3:27:31 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mo"tther's actual parenting of children)
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To: R_Kangel

and old enough for mommykins not to receive “child” support payments on your behalf. Title IV of the SS act was expanded under the Clintoons to give local CSEUs kick backs from the Feds (incentives) for highest CS payments ordered and collected. Goes to age 21 in most BLUE states


148 posted on 03/16/2019 3:33:00 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mo"tther's actual parenting of children)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

What I find bothersome is no one brought it up before you did and that it’s treated like lowering the voting age can and will be done by Pelosi. Close to 150 replies and I believe we are the only two even aware this is a Constitutional issue.


149 posted on 03/16/2019 3:56:38 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Republican Wildcat

The demographic shifts they need for a permanent Dem majority aren’t happening quickly enough, and they are losing some of the intended Dem voters here and there.

Does she want to lower the drinking age to 16? Driving age?


150 posted on 03/16/2019 5:04:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Texan4Life
Let’s just have Landowners/Property Owners Vote...

We could go back to that system.

I'd be OK with the franchise going only to net taxpayers. Let those who pay have the say.

151 posted on 03/16/2019 6:15:42 AM PDT by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: redfreedom

Yes, that is curious. I wonder if anyone in Congress is asking the question. From the example of 1970, the law passed and Nixon signed it, even though he doubted it was constitutional. He turned out to be correct. The extension of the franchise to women —also via constitutional amendment.


152 posted on 03/16/2019 2:48:09 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An old 1968 movie some may remember called ‘Wild in the streets’ was a surreal future where a drugged out band leader became president. He had a mantra to lower voting age to 15.

“15 or fight.” The young rulers that took over had ‘Old’ folks over 30 forced into camps and fed LSD.

This is how far the desperate dems have come. Just inches from an actual sci-fi movie. It was kind of cool for it’s time. Had a young Richard Pryor as drummer.


153 posted on 03/16/2019 4:06:29 PM PDT by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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To: freedomlver
Here's where the Radical Left wants to take us asap:
154 posted on 03/16/2019 4:19:47 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

1970 was different than to day in that the emotional logic ( know that’s an oxymoron) was if we could send 18 yo kids off to war, they should be able to vote. From that perspective, it does make sense.

Today’s reasoning for 16 year olds is purely to get brainwashed kids to vote demonrat. They do not have the maturity to have the slightest clue what they are being tricked into. Kids have a herd mentality, where if one jumps off a cliff because it’s cool, most of the others will too. Any kid that does not follow the herd is shunned.


155 posted on 03/17/2019 5:05:58 AM PDT by redfreedom
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Ya lose ONE presidential election and you want to throw out electoral college and lower the voting age. Take a breathe and try to come up with a better candidate next time.


156 posted on 03/17/2019 2:12:57 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: redfreedom

From what I’ve read, they discussed lowering the age to 18 for about thirty years before actually getting it done. People of that age had some other rights and responsibilities of adulthood, so they did have some foundation for the change. But someone who is sixteen has none of those, and for good reason. Pelosi gushes about how enthusiastic they are. They do have enthusiasms, but I don’t think they have the right kind. And they are manipulable, which is what she is hoping for.


157 posted on 03/17/2019 7:37:00 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school. . . .

"and she should know--she's captured quite a few."

158 posted on 03/18/2019 3:47:34 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Don Corleone

Who knew? If fetuses could vote the democrats would quickly become pro life. Or possibly the Dems will pass some kind of bill that upon birth, the mother can vote not only for herself but the baby as well.


159 posted on 03/20/2019 7:20:38 AM PDT by Toespi
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