Posted on 11/21/2022 5:46:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that lawmakers will be asked to vote on lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 following a top-level court decision.
The country's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that not allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote amounted to discrimination, in line with New Zealand's Bill of Rights.
Ardern said that she supported the move, but campaigners admit that it will be difficult to get the 75% support needed from lawmakers to pass the legislation.
The court's ruling means that parliament must discuss the issue, but it does not oblige parliament to change the voting age.
Protection against discrimination in New Zealand begins at 16 which ultimately led the Supreme Court to side with campaigners who argued that since 16-year-olds can drive and pay taxes, they should also be able to vote.
Several other countries, such as Austria, Brazil and Cuba, already allow voting from the age of 16, while other countries are debating lowering their voting age.
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If a child can opt for mutilating surgery and hormones to mimic the opposite sex, they're surely capable of voting.
should be 21 minimum and property owners only.
They have lost their minds.........................
This isn’t insanity.
NZ’s Deep State has sold NZ out to the ChiComs.
Progressives claim the "common man" is too stupid to rule themselves.
When the voting population shows it is not as ignorant and stupid as they claim, they move to make voters more ignorant and stupid.
Yes. And that *is insanity*.
New Zealand was a jewel of freedom, stability, and prosperity.
They are destroying all of those things.
The 26th should be repealed in this country...along with the 19th, of course.
It’s not insanity on the part of the perps.
It’s sheer unadulterated evil.
When political power is shifted to the young, it is typically wielded with less maturity and wisdom. Sometimes countries have to do stupid things to see just how foolish those things are.
I like your thinking on this.
I’m not sure about this.
If you can get a driver’s licnese, should you be able to vote?
If you can have a bank account (that doesn’t require a named parent/guardian), should you be able to vote?
The voting age should be raised to 29 and voters should be required to pass a test on the Constitution.
The 19th led to most of the BS in our country today.
That’s why I don’t care about a dude swimming in a chick division.
Women were fine with ruining my military and numerous men’s sports.
This doesn’t count the large destruction of efficiency in the workplace.
Micromanaging and nitpicking galore…
New Zealand will probably temporarily allow the sixteen year olds to register and vote in this election to determine whether the voting age should be dropped to sixteen . . .
And the seventeenth.
Then make the voting age 30 years? By then, people are fully myelinated.
Okay.
Yeah...that one, as well. :-)
The Kiwis should lower it to age Two, their "nation" would be better run.
Lord of the flies.
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