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That was my first thought but there are so many potential pitfalls & problems. What about learning disabled, disadvantaged, just having no access or poor schoo
by dillondoyle 6y ago
That was my first thought but there are so many potential pitfalls & problems.
What about learning disabled, disadvantaged, just having no access or poor school/lack of opportunity etc.
And what if you fail!? we can't deny the right to vote because you can't pass a test. That's what we did to black Americans.
though to be honest I'm the type that judge people who don't vote. I get mad when people say 'but it doesn't do anything' but they don't vote!!!
I think it should be mandatory it's the least you can do for our country. You don't have to vote for anyone can always write sponge bob or black it out as an F you to the system. Or better yet, work to elect people & pass measures that change the system!
- dan-robertson 6y agoYou could just give them all the right to vote and rely on the fact that young people tend not to vote. It’s about the closest thing to a law of sociology that there is.
- dillondoyle 6y agoI'm totally into this. Picking the age line is hard. 13 year olds can have very different maturity. But I don't think that matters. Many adults have similar maturity haha ;) I'm not so sure on vote rate. I hope we might be surprised! Even if not 20% would make a difference in policy. If it was part of curriculum and we tried to give students more confidence in their own power it could have generational change. A lot of social change has happened this way. I work in politics and it very much disturbs me how often you hear that 'my vote doesn't have any power so why bother' it's self enforcing BS.