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I want to lower voting age to 16, says Starmer
BBC ^ | May 25 | BBC

Posted on 05/25/2024 8:14:35 AM PDT by RandFan

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To: RandFan
VOTE FOR MAX!!


21 posted on 05/25/2024 8:29:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Bernard
"Wild in the Streets"

Darn, ya gotta be fast around here. See #21.

22 posted on 05/25/2024 8:30:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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They’re ALREADY getting 16-year-olds to vote through “preregistration” schemes...nobody asks for ID to prove they’re eligible to vote in Democrat districts.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/preregistration-for-young-voters


23 posted on 05/25/2024 8:30:59 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: stanne

I say reinstate property requirements. Property owners are the ones with a real stake in the success of society.


24 posted on 05/25/2024 8:31:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: RandFan

You can bet teachers will be encouraged to bring all their students to the voting booth.


25 posted on 05/25/2024 8:33:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

Would be great. Those 16 year olds could never be misled by the corrupt MSM. These guys stay on top of goings on in the political world. Nobody could trick them into voting for the MSM preferred candidate.


26 posted on 05/25/2024 8:34:55 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I agree. Property owner or must have paid SOME Federal income tax to vote in Federal elections.


27 posted on 05/25/2024 8:34:59 AM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: RandFan

I want to change the voting age to property owners only.


28 posted on 05/25/2024 8:38:07 AM PDT by caver ( )
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To: RandFan

Sixteen year olds are children and not mature enough to vote.

Eighteen year olds aren’t either. But I do know an eighteen year old should vote if they are old enough to die in wars to enrich the globalists.


29 posted on 05/25/2024 8:40:24 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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Like we don’t have enough stupid, ignorant, illegal and dead people voting already . .


30 posted on 05/25/2024 8:42:39 AM PDT by MCSETots
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Liberals in the Western World are all the same and use the same tactics.

Democrats here in the USA have suggested the same crazy idea of lowering the voting age to 16.

I don’t the election laws in the UK, but lowering the voting age is just one tactic, the next thing you will hear is allowing illegal immigrants to vote...

Liberals if given an inch will corrupt the election system everywhere they can, anything less than in person voting with a valid id is election corruption.


31 posted on 05/25/2024 8:44:25 AM PDT by srmanuel (Q)
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If you can change your gender at age 5 then you also can drink smoke and vote. Why not? Follow the science....

May as well draft them and send them to Ukraine.

32 posted on 05/25/2024 8:46:00 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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And then once they get complete power, they will do away with elections.


33 posted on 05/25/2024 8:47:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No argument .


34 posted on 05/25/2024 8:47:05 AM PDT by stanne
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Part of leftist world-view is people are corrupted by society, where they are naturally "good".

Therefore, children are wiser and make better decisions than their parents or grandparents.

It is unalterably false. It is a doctrine on the Left.

35 posted on 05/25/2024 8:50:21 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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> I want to lower voting age to 16, says Starmer <

Not low enough. I’ve long advocated for giving cats the right to vote, as they are smarter than most people. My cat is now 12. Therefore, lower the voting age to 12.

And let cats vote.


36 posted on 05/25/2024 8:50:56 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Bernard

Then give out free video games…


37 posted on 05/25/2024 8:51:21 AM PDT by albie
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They've been trying this in San Francisco.

San Francisco youth launch 3rd attempt to lower voting age to 16 in city elections.

38 posted on 05/25/2024 8:51:59 AM PDT by Angelino97
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> Sixteen year olds are children and not mature enough to vote. <

Yep. And for that reason they cannot enter into a legally binding contract.


39 posted on 05/25/2024 8:53:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Bernard
Yep, but they demand the voting age to be 14, by 30 you were through!

The ending was hilarious. 🤣 But I still shook my head for the silliness of it all.

40 posted on 05/25/2024 8:53:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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