WASHINGTON — The mayor of Washington, D.C., and a majority of the council are voicing support for letting 16-year-olds vote for president.
Local media report that the measure would lower the voting age from 18 for both federal and local elections.
Council approval would make the nation’s capital the first municipality to allow minors to vote in presidential contests, and the first major city to allow them to vote in local races. The Washington Post editorial board is in favor.
A similar measure went nowhere when council member Charles Allen proposed it in 2015, but adults are changing their minds as young people nationwide mobilize for gun controls.
It was another youth movement, against the Vietnam War, that pushed for the 26th constitutional amendment that lowered the national voting age to 18.
Washington D.C. may consider allowing 16-year-olds vote for president
Poster Comment:
"Fourteen or FIGHT!"
In this first ever "Rock the Vote," video, Christopher Jones sings about lowering the voting age to 14. His master plan? Becoming president then herding everyone over 21 into concentration camps to be fed LSD for the rest of their lives. Good idea. Yeah, that's Richard Pryor on drums.
#1: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
This is more PROOF that even the Dims understand they can never win without cheating.
sneakypete posted on 2018-04-19 19:28:11 Reply Private Reply
#2: paraclete To: sneakypete (#1)
Do you actually believe that hood rats vote? Incredible !
There is no reason why a responsible 16 year old who has taken the trouble to register should not vote, they are the future and they should become politically aware early so they can get rid of the corrupt elders
paraclete posted on 2018-04-20 03:13:48 Reply Private Reply
#3: sneakypete To: paraclete (#2)
I know for a fact they vote,even if they don't know it. You DO remember Bathhouse Barry being elected and reelected,right?
There is no reason why a responsible 16 year old who has taken the trouble to register should not vote
You are more full of shit than a Christmas goose. How long has it been since you were 16 years old,70-80 years? You have clearly forgotten what a clueless fool you were,and you weren't even a hoodrat.
sneakypete posted on 2018-04-20 08:46:40 Reply Private Reply
#4: paraclete To: sneakypete (#3)
You are an idiot who knows nothing about me, at 16 I was working and fully able to exercise a vote and it is sixty years since those days. I was never a clueless fool as you apparently were but an educated person
paraclete posted on 2018-04-20 09:47:28 Reply Private Reply
#5: sneakypete To: paraclete (#4)
Yeah,you and Goober Gore.
sneakypete posted on 2018-04-20 17:47:51 Reply Private Reply
#6: rlk To: Deckard (#0)
There's nothing wrong with that since the only thing we're getting is mentalities of stunted 12 year-olds running for president.
rlk posted on 2018-04-21 12:09:46 Reply Private Reply