Yes to young people and non US citizens to vote in local elections?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I don't agree, but old people in that case would be a much bigger concern. Many of them are basically single-issue voters focused on how much the government will boost their SS and Medicare handouts next year.

They worked to earn credits for that. The Cola is set into law. Voting not to have their benefits cut at an age where they can't make up the income is not at all the same as voting for new freebies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I don't agree, but old people in that case would be a much bigger concern. Many of them are basically single-issue voters focused on how much the government will boost their SS and Medicare handouts next year.

They worked to earn credits for that. The Cola is set into law. Voting not to have their benefits cut at an age where they can't make up the income is not at all the same as voting for new freebies.

Not the PP but I don't think either of you are keeping in mind a key point here.

We are talking about local elections (likely Rockville). What exactly do you think are the "new freebies" that anyone thinks they are going to get by voting for a particular candidate, in particular a teenager?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I don't agree, but old people in that case would be a much bigger concern. Many of them are basically single-issue voters focused on how much the government will boost their SS and Medicare handouts next year.

They worked to earn credits for that. The Cola is set into law. Voting not to have their benefits cut at an age where they can't make up the income is not at all the same as voting for new freebies.

Greedy boomers squabbling with self-involved Gen Z over government spoils. Love it!

[Anonymous]

You should have to be at least 18 years of age, be a US citizen and meet one of these two qualifications to vote in US elections:

Be a land owner who can trace their ancestry to someone who came to the US before 1776,

Or

Pass a civics test the ensures you understand the founding principles of the United States and how the Government works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I think they are probably choices to vote than your nasty ass

[Anonymous]

Idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

+1

[Anonymous]

Takoma Park has allowed 16 year olds and noncitizens to vote since the 1980s. Marc Elrich was elected to his first of ten terms on the Takoma Park city council in 1987. The rest is history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Voting is a privilege of citizenship

+100

I also don't support allowing felons to be able to vote again, they lost the privilege. Looking at YOU VA. SMH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I don't agree, but old people in that case would be a much bigger concern. Many of them are basically single-issue voters focused on how much the government will boost their SS and Medicare handouts next year.

If you are older than the President, then you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[Anonymous]

Hell to the no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The D.C. Youth Rehabilitation Act allows courts to ignore minimum sentences and seal records for anyone under 25, on the basis that adults under the age of 25 don’t have a fully developed brain that can figure out what right and wrong is.

So activists yell that 24 year olds can’t figure out that assaulting people is wrong, and then turn around and claim 16 year olds are mature enough to choose our political leadership? These people have zero logical consistency. None. Their whole premise seems to be “let me do whatever I want, let me have zero consequences, let other people pay for it, and have the government crack down hard on anyone I dislike.”

No and no.

And felons should have to earn back their voting rights, by maintaining a clean record for 10 years after time served.

If they do the time than I think they should be allowed to vote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should have to be at least 18 years of age, be a US citizen and meet one of these two qualifications to vote in US elections:

Be a land owner who can trace their ancestry to someone who came to the US before 1776,

Or

Pass a civics test the ensures you understand the founding principles of the United States and how the Government works.

Racist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. You want my 15 year old, who along with all her friends, thinks money comes from “the government” to vote locally. On things like bond referendums. Or people who got here 3 months ago, haven’t paid a penny in taxes yet but are already net consumers of public benefits, to elect politicians who will give them more free stuff.

Yeah great. Great plan.

JFC, we’re doomed.

I think they are probably choices to vote than your nasty ass

This nasty ass can make a coherent statement.

We STILL don’t know what you meant with your gibberish. Care to try again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The D.C. Youth Rehabilitation Act allows courts to ignore minimum sentences and seal records for anyone under 25, on the basis that adults under the age of 25 don’t have a fully developed brain that can figure out what right and wrong is.

So activists yell that 24 year olds can’t figure out that assaulting people is wrong, and then turn around and claim 16 year olds are mature enough to choose our political leadership? These people have zero logical consistency. None. Their whole premise seems to be “let me do whatever I want, let me have zero consequences, let other people pay for it, and have the government crack down hard on anyone I dislike.”

No and no.

And felons should have to earn back their voting rights, by maintaining a clean record for 10 years after time served.

If they do the time than I think they should be allowed to vote

And buy guns again, too.