Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
daniellhawk
2012/06/25 04:16:59
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The right to vote is one of the most important human rights.
A century or so ago almost no countries allowed women to vote, and it
took decades of struggle for them to win political rights. Fifty years
ago countries such as South Africa and many states in the USA limited
the rights of black people to vote, but that too has changed for the
better. Now every democracy accepts that all adult citizens should have
the right to vote. But what does adult mean?
Do you think we committing discrimination in our current voting laws?
A century or so ago almost no countries allowed women to vote, and it
took decades of struggle for them to win political rights. Fifty years
ago countries such as South Africa and many states in the USA limited
the rights of black people to vote, but that too has changed for the
better. Now every democracy accepts that all adult citizens should have
the right to vote. But what does adult mean?
Do you think we committing discrimination in our current voting laws?
Read More: http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-16-year-old...
Top Opinion
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unicorn_lady1 2012/06/25 11:36:40No, 16 is too young to vote.
+10Perhaps since children believe they should be covered under their parents insurance till age 26, they should move the voting age to 27?
not 16 but 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They pay taxes??? On what?? The 600.00 they make at their summer job?
For the next thirty some years I thought that 18 was fine. That ended in 2009 when I started hearing all of the Seniors who had voted but had never held down a job, never owned property, never served in the Armed Forces but were excitedly voting for obama and swooning over his class-envy, redistribution of wealth ideas. I thought that something was definitely wrong then.
I begin to doubt the wisdom of even 18 year-olds voting unless they are either in the Armed Forces or own property (such as a house or business, this can include a ranch or farm) or hold down a full-time job paying taxes (and seeing their earnings being taken from them to be "re-distributed" to others).
When our country first started, men who had no "stake" in it, that is, no property, no business or such were not allowed to vote. While the owner of the brothel had a stake and could vote, the piano player in the brothel could not.
If that carried to modern times, say ten years ago, I owned a construction business and a house and could...
For the next thirty some years I thought that 18 was fine. That ended in 2009 when I started hearing all of the Seniors who had voted but had never held down a job, never owned property, never served in the Armed Forces but were excitedly voting for obama and swooning over his class-envy, redistribution of wealth ideas. I thought that something was definitely wrong then.
I begin to doubt the wisdom of even 18 year-olds voting unless they are either in the Armed Forces or own property (such as a house or business, this can include a ranch or farm) or hold down a full-time job paying taxes (and seeing their earnings being taken from them to be "re-distributed" to others).
When our country first started, men who had no "stake" in it, that is, no property, no business or such were not allowed to vote. While the owner of the brothel had a stake and could vote, the piano player in the brothel could not.
If that carried to modern times, say ten years ago, I owned a construction business and a house and could therefore vote. On the other hand, the "helper" who did not own a business and lived in his mother's basement would not be able to vote.
While I have misgivings about 18 year old voters who are still high school seniors, I'd rather we let that be the cutoff line than lowering it to 16. I work with 16 year-old young men and women most of the year and I can tell you that they are not mature enough to be wielding such power. Most 18 year-olds are not that mature but it would cause a lot of harm to kick it back up to 21.
Leave it at 18.
Go for 21.
Swiper, no swiping (our right to vote)!
Swiper, no swiping (our right to vote)!
Swiper, no swiping (our right to vote)!
(For real though, yes. Sixteen is a reasonable age to be given the franchise.)
Teenagers are brain damaged, we all were brain damaged. Some remain brain damaged teenagers through their 20's too. LOL
When I served, I could vote and thought that I should. The only elections I remember missing were when my absentee ballot did not arrive.
Teachers, that's a different story.
Some of them will pass a common sense test too, unfortunately most of them don't even know there are three branches to our government or separation of power.
Most of them have their own version of the 1st amendment which they try to enforce in our schools according to political correctness. They think it's bad to sing God Bless America because it has the words God and America or Yankee Doodle Dandy because it says do or die and real life nephew of Uncle Sam born on the 4th of July.
I had a teacher at a dinner party once ask why a man on the cover of a local magazine had the letters Esq. after his name. The man was a local attorney.
There are a few really sharp teachers that I know.
There are others with very little common sense.
You guys are out there risking everything, everything for us and of all things one being our right to vote and keep our Republic. To know there's a chance your vote may not be counted for no valid reason is an outrage.
Every time we hear there is a chance our military's votes may not be counted. We, as in our community, friends, neighbors, people I work with in the office and with the 9-12 project, people I remain in touch with to get the vote out and expose what the media doesn't. We feel outrage.
With all the technological advance there should not be a reason in this world why your vote, our military's votes should be in danger of not being counted. That is incomprehensible.
I know teachers like you say that are in it for real. The teacher at the dinner table, that was real too. I have had no complaints about my son's teachers. Even the principal where he attended high school, I can't find enough good things to say a bout the guy. There are teachers too that should not be in our schools, there are a lot of them. I know first hand.
Body language and expressions don't come across on postings like these so the humor and sarca...
You guys are out there risking everything, everything for us and of all things one being our right to vote and keep our Republic. To know there's a chance your vote may not be counted for no valid reason is an outrage.
Every time we hear there is a chance our military's votes may not be counted. We, as in our community, friends, neighbors, people I work with in the office and with the 9-12 project, people I remain in touch with to get the vote out and expose what the media doesn't. We feel outrage.
With all the technological advance there should not be a reason in this world why your vote, our military's votes should be in danger of not being counted. That is incomprehensible.
I know teachers like you say that are in it for real. The teacher at the dinner table, that was real too. I have had no complaints about my son's teachers. Even the principal where he attended high school, I can't find enough good things to say a bout the guy. There are teachers too that should not be in our schools, there are a lot of them. I know first hand.
Body language and expressions don't come across on postings like these so the humor and sarcasm is missed and I know that when i joke around or use sarcasm. All teachers have the right to vote regardless.
Voting age, drinking age, it should be adult age, right now it's 18. I don't agree but that is the law so if they change it back to 21 I think it would be great. There is a reason drinking age is 21 and not 18.
Centurion thank you for your service and indulging in my rants. God bless you and family.
Warriors for our homes and families;
You may recall that Vietnam was going on back then. A lot of us figured that if we were old enough to go there, then we ought to be old enough to vote on the people sending us there.
What would you say to then cutting out people who do not have a "stake" such as those who do not own any property at all such as a house, a ranch, a farm, even a small business? While I own a house and a small business, I also know that such a move would take a lot of voters off of the rolls. Imagine a person being 40 but being dropped from the voter rolls because of not meeting the "propertied" requirement.
How about active duty military? Should they be able to vote? Perhaps enlisting might give a person automatic registration to vote upon graduation from basic training even at 18.
Please be assured that I'm not trying to put you on the spot. While we disagree on some things I consider you to be a very intelligent person and I really respect your opinion. I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.
(with the exception of those serving in the Military in Uniform .. )
and given that we now have dependents on our Health Insurance until 27 yrs of age ..
hmm .. could be a possible impetus .. possible idea to raise it to that age too ..
Your'e so bored? How about take a day and go visit some of the veterans at your nearest VA Hospital? They would love to have some company and will also give you an education you will not get in a classroom.
Best to you cute teen 13.