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Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16
The Hill ^ | 03/14/19 03:19 PM EDT | JOHN BOWDEN

Posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Crazieman

Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and
Scope of Government?

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf


41 posted on 03/14/2019 8:06:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Republican Wildcat

Dems have a plan. No idea what our side has.


42 posted on 03/14/2019 8:08:59 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Felons, illegal aliens and children. It’s the only way the rats have a chance of winning.


43 posted on 03/14/2019 8:09:24 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well if they’re going to reduce the voting age to 16 why stop there.Why not let kindergarteners sign up to vote?

The Rats Care nothing about the American voter. If they did they would lock down that southern border.


44 posted on 03/14/2019 8:10:08 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

How about you must have paid taxes before you can vote? Or is that gunna be one of institutionally racist things? It would cut out illegals and those who havnt contributed towards society from deciding who should be spending the money the citizens put into it


45 posted on 03/14/2019 8:10:34 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s to make her eligible to vote because she has regressed mentally back to 16. Actually, most six year olds are far more coherent than her.


46 posted on 03/14/2019 8:11:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sparklite2

It works for them and other parts of Europe and Asia precisely because people who don’t think of the future are precisely the people who run into other people if given control of a vehicle.

It’s harsh, but it is also perfectly fair and their rate of auto collisions had reached a point where they really didn’t have much choice but to implement this.

Winter driving there is brutal when you are sober, and fatal to you and to others when you are not.


47 posted on 03/14/2019 8:12:15 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ealgeone

Dems have a plan. No idea what our side has.


naiveté


48 posted on 03/14/2019 8:13:13 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
If this had been in place in 1984 I would have been able to vote for Reagan, pushing him from landslide to megalandslide. He needed just one more vote.

A little more seriously, the Constitution sets the voting requirement for the House as "... the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature." So if a state wants a voting age of less than 18 it can do it without Pelosi.

49 posted on 03/14/2019 8:15:26 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I adhere to the constitution. The founders were brilliant in thought and their ideals. The constitution was true and right in that only land owners should vote.

When we lost that; those that don’t pay for real estate tax, state tax, school tax, city tax etc. We became a welfare country. The democrats push many into non-property owners to keep them ignorant of this.

Sixteen year olds? Studies have proven the brain isn’t fully developed until at least 25. Millennials today, are still qualified as children under

Obamacare!

As Benjamin Franklin stated, “A replubic, if you ca keep lt.”


50 posted on 03/14/2019 8:27:13 PM PDT by lovemysoldier
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course she does. The more empty skulls full of mush voters the ‘RATS have out there, the better off the commie ‘RATS will be during the elections. Ignorant voters almost always vote for the ‘RATS. How does she feel about 16 year olds buying cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and firearms? Nasty Nan is a lowlife, bottom feeding hypocrite.


51 posted on 03/14/2019 8:35:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

...... There should be a set policy that the Legal Voting age is the same age as the Legal Age for the Military Draft. If you are old enough to vote for the leader of this nation then you are old enough to fight for the United States.


52 posted on 03/14/2019 8:35:30 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What if they vote to get alcohol and guns?


53 posted on 03/14/2019 8:37:11 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The voting age used to be 21.

It was lowered to 18, only because anyone old enough to fight for the country should have the right to vote.


54 posted on 03/14/2019 8:37:31 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The geriatric debutante continues to say preposterous things with saccharin sincerity.


55 posted on 03/14/2019 8:37:50 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m all for having 16 year olds to start paying taxes so they can truly appreciate how much it costs the taxpayers to send them to school while they are still in school.


56 posted on 03/14/2019 8:40:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kids under the influence of public teachers unions should not be allowed to bvote.


57 posted on 03/14/2019 8:42:19 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As a woman, yes it has.

I hate it.... I want rational thought - not emotional.


58 posted on 03/14/2019 8:42:43 PM PDT by lovemysoldier
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Those same 16 yo should be able to buy booze and serve in the military. Hell give them medical marijuana too.


59 posted on 03/14/2019 8:43:50 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free wwg1wga! Woe is media...)
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To: Track9

Yet many of the same people want to change the legal age for owning a gun to 21. I’m just sayin’


60 posted on 03/14/2019 8:49:07 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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