Posted on 05/25/2024 8:14:35 AM PDT by RandFan
Keir Starmer has confirmed he wants to lower the voting age to 16.
Voting rights have already been extended to some under-18s in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. In Germany, 16-year-olds can vote in local elections and, as of this month, in European elections.
In Scotland and Wales, over-16s can already vote in devolved national elections, as well as in local elections. Over-16s also have the vote in local elections in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
However, the vote is restricted to over-18s in all elections in England and Northern Ireland.
The Liberal Democrats and Green Party have also previously supported the move, while the Conservatives have traditionally opposed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Darn, ya gotta be fast around here. See #21.
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
I say reinstate property requirements. Property owners are the ones with a real stake in the success of society.
You can bet teachers will be encouraged to bring all their students to the voting booth.
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.
I agree. Property owner or must have paid SOME Federal income tax to vote in Federal elections.
I want to change the voting age to property owners only.
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.
Like we don’t have enough stupid, ignorant, illegal and dead people voting already . .
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.
May as well draft them and send them to Ukraine.
And then once they get complete power, they will do away with elections.
No argument .
Therefore, children are wiser and make better decisions than their parents or grandparents.
It is unalterably false. It is a doctrine on the Left.
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.
Then give out free video games…
San Francisco youth launch 3rd attempt to lower voting age to 16 in city elections.
> Sixteen year olds are children and not mature enough to vote. <
Yep. And for that reason they cannot enter into a legally binding contract.
The ending was hilarious. 🤣 But I still shook my head for the silliness of it all.
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