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To: freepatriot32
The top issue for teen voters would probably be: Lower the drinking age.

the most radical proposal to enfranchise youth belongs to Germany, where parliament will consider this fall giving children the vote from infancy, giving new meaning to the social policy "from cradle to grave." Under the proposal, which would immediately increase the number of potential voters by 13.8 million, parents would vote on behalf of their children until they are 12, when the children could decide whether to allow their parents to vote for them.

So, in Germany under this proposal, parents would be given more than one vote up to the number of children they have...?

9 posted on 09/18/2003 10:55:11 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (and growing increasingly weary of this screenname, too.)
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To: JustAmy; Mama_Bear; JohnHuang2
Another sly left move from the left coast.
11 posted on 09/18/2003 10:59:03 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
So, in Germany under this proposal, parents would be given more than one vote up to the number of children they have...?

*chuckle*

If they tried this here, the U.S. would be a nation run by Mormons, Catholics, and welfare queens!
90 posted on 09/18/2003 1:26:15 PM PDT by Arthalion
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