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  • If you can't smoke or drink or own a firearm you have no business voting against other people's interests which is the only thing allowing 16 year olds to vote is designed to accomplish. 

  • like illegal immigrants- 16 yr olds - many of them - don't have the life experiences to know any better than to let themselves

    be emotionally manipulated by blatant falsehoods. Except most of the kids speak English.

  • Stuart

    Guess how many will vote democrat?

    That's what its all about.

  • exactly.

  • @westside-steve said:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/17/washington-d-c-may-allow-16-year-olds-vote-president-2020-election/523301002/

    May as well include house pets. And mentally Retarded people. And plants.

    ?

    WSS

    Stuart

    And dead people....oh wait, I think they already vote.

  • It should be limited to 17 year old persons.......................................as long as their parents signed for them to join any military branch of their choice. If you are in the military you have earned the right to vote.

  • @westside-steve said:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/17/washington-d-c-may-allow-16-year-olds-vote-president-2020-election/523301002/

    May as well include house pets. And mentally Retarded people. And plants.

    ?

    WSS

    Stuart

    And dead people....oh wait, I think they already vote.

    @stinkhole said:

    Stuart

    And dead people....oh wait, I think they already vote.

    And isn't it ironic that one brain activity stops they all seem to vote Democrat?

    WSS

  • 16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

  • 16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    @mld-woody said:

    16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    Stuart

    A competency test should be given to all democrats regardless of age.

  • Stuart

    This test would do just fine as a competency test.

    Got 23 of 24....missed the amendments question.

      https://www.washingtontimes.com/quiz/2015/feb/11/us-citizenship-test-could-you-pass/result/445492/

  • 16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    @mld-woody said:

    16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    I actually agree with they wood-man here. 

    Of course we shouldn't pretend we are unaware of what would happen if a republican Administration would try to impose any of kind of literacy or competency restrictions.

    WSS

  • I'm voting for Herbert Hoover in the next election.  Get off my grass!

  • @mld-woody said:

    16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    I actually agree with they wood-man here. 

    Of course we shouldn't pretend we are unaware of what would happen if a republican Administration would try to impose any of kind of literacy or competency restrictions.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    I actually agree with they wood-man here. 

    Of course we shouldn't pretend we are unaware of what would happen if a republican Administration would try to impose any of kind of literacy or competency restrictions.

    WSS

    Anyone over 70 should not be able to vote or hold office. I will be happy to sacrifice mine if it gets trumpy out!😆

  • @westside-steve said:

    I actually agree with they wood-man here. 

    Of course we shouldn't pretend we are unaware of what would happen if a republican Administration would try to impose any of kind of literacy or competency restrictions.

    WSS

    Anyone over 70 should not be able to vote or hold office. I will be happy to sacrifice mine if it gets trumpy out!😆

    @texasag1969 said:

    Anyone over 70 should not be able to vote or hold office. I will be happy to sacrifice mine if it gets trumpy out!😆

    Same as driving I guess. After a certain age the requirements get harder to attain.

    I would also consider an employment requirement. Consider.

    Of course that would probably put him back in.

    WSS

  • I'm not voting in anymore elections.  I removed myself from the voters registration.  Sick of getting jury duty.

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Anyone over 70 should not be able to vote or hold office. I will be happy to sacrifice mine if it gets trumpy out!😆

    Same as driving I guess. After a certain age the requirements get harder to attain.

    I would also consider an employment requirement. Consider.

    Of course that would probably put him back in.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Same as driving I guess. After a certain age the requirements get harder to attain.

    I would also consider an employment requirement. Consider.

    Of course that would probably put him back in.

    WSS

    Got a funny story on that. My paternal grandmother lived to 98. She and her sister were driving from the country where they lived on the way to church one morning and my grandmother just could not get around some pokey old lady with my grandmother's F-85 V-8 Olds. When she finally did she made the comment that they should not let little old ladies like that drive. Her sister asked how old she thought the woman was and she answered, "At least 70 or so!" Her sister then reminded her that they themselves were then in their mid 80's. My grandmother got a kick out of that even when driving to town in her 90's. You are only as old as you feel she always told me.

  • I'm not voting in anymore elections.  I removed myself from the voters registration.  Sick of getting jury duty.

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    I'm not voting in anymore elections.  I removed myself from the voters registration.  Sick of getting jury duty.

    You don't know what you're missing. I got to put some guy away who raped a woman he had abducted to a junk yard out in the country from Austin who managed to get away before he could shoot her. Gave him minimum of 40 to maximum of life. And if he gets out he gets deported to Mexico. The woman he raped and planned to kill was Mexican-American. I helped the jury understand he had told about 13 different lies on the stand. A preacher on the jury wanted to give him life without parole, but we could not hand that one down since she lived without actually being shot. We found him guilty of aggravated sexual assault (rape while threatening her life with a pistol). It was a pleasure. We made sure she was likely to be dead by the time he was eligible for parole since she was in her mid-40s. Ironically some of her friends told us afterwards they were not sure we the jury would give her justice since she was Mexican 2nd gen and he was over the border illegally. They were pleasantly surprised we could do what we did to ensure her future safety from that butt-hole.

  • 16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    @mld-woody said:

    16 is too young to vote

    Of course...  I think you can get too old at some point too... 

    Both of which could be solved with the implementation of a competency test that I've brought up before

    Neither side would want that. Dems would cry that black people didn't get a good enough education to read the test, can't drive to the test, don't own a pencil, any other list of insulting sh-it they could say about minorities while trying to be condescending. Republicans would list out a line of complaints but it would be pertaining to "older citizens". 

    None of them want to have informed voters making decisions.

  • I never said either side would want it. I just said it's a good idea.