Posted on 03/09/2017 4:46:21 PM PST by davikkm
Stung by recent election defeats, Democrats are leading the charge to lower the voting age to 17, with a little help from liberal billionaire George Soros. In California, Democratic legislators introduced this week a landmark bill, ACA 10, that would give the Golden State the nations youngest statewide voting age by lowering the threshold from 18 to 17 in the name of reversing the slide in voter turnout. Young people are our future, said Democratic Assembly member Evan Low, the measures sponsor. Lowering the voting age will help give them a voice in the democratic process and instill a lifelong habit of voting. The proposal comes as the most ambitious of a host of efforts to chip away at the 18-year-old voting age as Democrats seek to bring into the fold younger voters, who traditionally support more liberal causes and candidates than do their elders. It is a transparent ploy to pad the Democratic vote, said John J. Pitney Jr., American politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, referring to the California bill.
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That prohibits any law setting the voting age above 18. It does not prohibit any laws which allow those under the age of 18 to vote.
Not entirely true...there are quite a number of House districts where Republicans are in fact elected that could be flipped in California.
The word abridged means it may not be changed or altered
Yes it does...the term abridged in LS is a term of art.
Constitutional issues mainly, the constitution sets the age limit and the wording includes...”the states”. The Supreme court would have declare that the wording doesn’t preclude voters younger than 18.
The Democrats once again show their lack of vision. Lowering the age to -1/2 would allow aborted babies to vote by proxy (much like the dead do now) and generate a whole new Democrat voting block.
Lowering the age much further would start to bring questions that the fetus was actually a person which could get messy for them.
Well, it goes beyond tax payments for me.
What I want is someone who actually has to face a home budget each month. People having to face that reality are generally more capable of grasping the Conservative message.
When it’s your future on the line, you suddenly don’t like taxation. You don’t like government mandates/regulations. You want freedom to thrive.
That is counter to the Leftist mantra.
Thanks for the note of recognition. I appreciate it.
Fine, if they can vote, drink booze,enlist in the military, get married, get off their parents health care, etc....if you want to be grown up....grow up.
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