Lowering the voting age to 16?

[fettpett]

if anything, just repeal the 26th amendment an raise it back to 21, but i don't see it happening. Preregistering and showing ID is the way to go

[fettpett]

i'm actualy considering the airforce :D



but shouldn't they have the option? there are many people who can vote that don't.

nah, 18 is the lowest it should go

[Starbuck]

The idea of an 18 year old voting is asinine. But we'll never get that genie back in the bottle.:mad:

You ought to be 21 and own property. Or have owned property in the past.

[Wei Wu Wei]

You people do realize that things like poll quizzes, property requirements, and the rest was done in the past as a way to disenfranchise minority and poor voters. It's funny how gleefully everyone here loves that idea.

[fettpett]

You people do realize that things like poll quizzes, property requirements, and the rest was done in the past as a way to disenfranchise minority and poor voters. It's funny how gleefully everyone here loves that idea.

no they were only given to certain people, not everyone equally, that is what they are talking about, in order to vote everyone would have to take a quiz.

property i don't particularly agree with

[Wei Wu Wei]

How about instead of doing elections, we go with the Supreme Court's definition of speech and just say that whichever candidate raises the most money wins. Each election the candidates will simply do a fundraising campaign and whoever rakes in the most billions becomes POTUS.

We're almost there already, why not?

[jnkbortka]

You people do realize that things like poll quizzes, property requirements, and the rest was done in the past as a way to disenfranchise minority and poor voters. It's funny how gleefully everyone here loves that idea.

I think the poll quiz is an excellent idea. why not just make the quiz naming the bill of rights? property requirements are not such a good idea though.

The idea of an 18 year old voting is asinine. But we'll never get that genie back in the bottle.:mad:

You ought to be 21 and own property. Or have owned property in the past.

I disagree. as with any age group, there will always be a group of stupid people. I'm sure there are plenty of people over the age of 21 that voted for Obama, no? this is why you institute the quiz requirement, so intelligent people, of any age can vote, and ghetto/trailer trash welfare whores can't.

How about instead of doing elections, we go with the Supreme Court's definition of speech and just say that whichever candidate raises the most money wins. Each election the candidates will simply do a fundraising campaign and whoever rakes in the most billions becomes POTUS.

We're almost there already, why not?

this is why we only let the INTELLIGENT people vote, who look past this, and who know the bill of rights and what its all about.

[Rebel Yell]

If you pay taxes, you vote,

If you haven't paid taxes in the last 2 years, you don't.

[txradioguy]

this is why we only let the INTELLIGENT people vote, who look past this, and who know the bill of rights and what its all about.

If that were truly the case n00b...Obama wouldn't be the President today.

[Zathras]

The only good thing about 16 years olds being able to vote is that a tiny fraction of them would even bother doing it.

But then again you could finaly vote...no, wait...you would still need to wait 4 years if the voting age was 16.