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Major US city may soon allow 16-year-olds to vote, could others could follow suit? (San Francisco)
Fox News ^ | September 13 2020 | Bradford Betz

Posted on 09/13/2020 11:08:15 PM PDT by knighthawk

San Franciscans will cast their ballots in November to decide whether 16-year-olds can vote in local elections.

The proposition, if passed, would make San Francisco the first major U.S. city to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections.

Advocates of the measure say lowering the voting age would instill a lifelong habit of voting.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: sanfrancisco; votingage
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1 posted on 09/13/2020 11:08:15 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

They’re looking to expand the votes from propagandized
children.

Who could be behind this? Scratches head... /s


2 posted on 09/13/2020 11:13:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: knighthawk

Which is why public schools are so politicized, and not by the right. The Nazis knew that once you brainwash the youth, you own that generation for life.


3 posted on 09/13/2020 11:17:22 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

They had the NAZIs.

We have the NutZies...


4 posted on 09/13/2020 11:18:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: knighthawk

16 year olds are still trying to figure out how to fornicate and parallel park, and someone thinks they’re mature enough to have an effect on the future of their city? I remember myself and my crowd at 16. I’d like to go back in time and kick all of our asses. *smh*


5 posted on 09/13/2020 11:19:48 PM PDT by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: knighthawk

Many at 16 can’t read. Make all the ballots in cursive, so they have no idea who they are voting for.


6 posted on 09/13/2020 11:21:23 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: knighthawk

There are numerous articles stating that the human brain is not mature until the early 20s—not during adolescence. What car insurance companies have long recognized, apparently the morons wanting 16 year old voters have not. They just want naive, easily swayed, pre-commie-indoctrinated easy marks for their political baloney, figuring they’d get a lot of dummocrap (i.e., commie) votes from the bubble gum popping crowd. Absolutely diabolical, heinous, and disgusting. I spit on them!


7 posted on 09/13/2020 11:24:16 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: knighthawk

What about the 26th amendment?


8 posted on 09/13/2020 11:29:48 PM PDT by ktw (72 ID, Finally Retired after 25 years!)
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To: knighthawk
Can they do that?

It required a constitutional amendment to allow 18 year olds to vote.

Did women vote before the 20th amendment was ratified?

9 posted on 09/13/2020 11:31:14 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Jess Kitting

Oops, make that the 19th Amendment for Women’s right to vote.


10 posted on 09/13/2020 11:32:53 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: knighthawk

Wait until the 16-year-olds learn they can just vote themselves all of Twatter’s and Ghey Cook’s and Goolag’s money.


11 posted on 09/13/2020 11:34:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: knighthawk

Harvesting fake names for the next election.


12 posted on 09/13/2020 11:34:42 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Viking2002

I wouldn’t mind this deal, if you gave the same 16-year-old the right to buy beer, own a car, get married, etc. But you never seem to get the rest of the adult-options.


13 posted on 09/14/2020 12:14:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: knighthawk

your pets should get to vote too.


14 posted on 09/14/2020 12:24:29 AM PDT by KTM rider (, Virus protection isn't just for your computer anymore, we gotta pay up and pay dearly)
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To: knighthawk

baloney

voting at 18 is just fine to start a habit of lifelong voting


15 posted on 09/14/2020 12:28:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly. I first voted at 18 and I have a lifelong habit of voting.


16 posted on 09/14/2020 12:44:05 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give e Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: DoughtyOne
They have the NAnZI...........


17 posted on 09/14/2020 1:47:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: knighthawk

Why age 16...why not 12...or 10...or 7. They know so much these days. I remember when I was 14 I thought I knew it all. Maybe kids should be in charge, and not old people like Pelosi and Biden.


18 posted on 09/14/2020 4:05:40 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: knighthawk
Raise it to about 25. At 68 I am not as wise or mature as some of the Founding Fathers were at 38.
19 posted on 09/14/2020 5:55:43 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: knighthawk

Once they are registered to vote in local elections what is to prevent them from *accidentally* voting in national ones?


20 posted on 09/14/2020 6:10:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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