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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[ Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16 ]
Why not 5? The chilruns can vote after nap time.
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
Yep. It’s pathetic.
Lookie here, if babies are old enough to be aborted, they are old enough to vote -
I seen this, she is an utter mess, she is shot! Dementia, Botox od, Alzheimer’s something is up with her she’s not right
So in other words, Nanzi...children are the only ones stupid enough to vote for you.
“The human brain doesn’t finish all its developmental stages until age 25.
Just sayin’...”
So that means the Dems support no more ‘Juvenile Crimes’ since the Dems consider them aware and engaged; they must be aware of what is right and wrong....so no juvenile detention centers for a 16 yr old - straight to regular ‘adult’ jail for them....they can be held to a contract...etc etc
Ya right
Boy! Those Dims are really reaching for voters. They’ve been killing off their voter base for years and have to make it up with illegals and kids who are still wet behind the ears.
‘Face
Key word: capture.
Why not six then?
Young skulls full of mush. It should go back to 21 but not as long as you can become a service member at 18.
“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. “
Sometimes I favor leaving 16-year-olds on a tropical island for a year as part of manhood training. Those that survive could vote after they recuperate. Then, I’m currently parenting a sixteen-year-old, so I’m biased. Nancy has bodyguards to protect her from anyone under 30, so what does she know.
interesting. Now, where is that Hans-Hermann Hoppe book I used to have ... something about democracy and a god that died ...
Lowering the voting age to 18 was insane, 16 is just a logical continuation of that insanity. Every expansion of the franchise has resulted in another step toward oblivion. We are not being kept from Nirvana by a lack of voters. We need a lot fewer people voting.
My 16 year old high school junior just came home with a voter registration form! Apparently this is an area that need me to be looked at much, much closer. Can’t vote for Trump until 2020 but here you have personal info on a youngster being provided to partisans way in advance of legal voting age.
Are they stealing identities, voting for them, targeting our youths? All of the above? You can’t even get a credit report on your kid at this age. When they hit 18, are they gonna find accounts open in their names? No reason whatsoever for a 16 year old to register to vote right now. None.
The commies are harvesting.
If you are not aborted a you can vote.
SCOTUS doesn’t allow capital punishment for those under 18, with Kennedy saying their brains aren’t fully developed and cannot appreciate the consequences of their actions.
And now the Dems want 16 year olds to vote ???
He can drive to the polling place with mom with his permit.
She’s wacky as all get out. Sure Nance, got to reel them in before their frontal lobes are fully developed.
These are the people who think that a person’s brain isn’t fully mature until 29, and that adults under 29 should be carried on their parents’ health insurance, and not prosecuted as an adult.
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