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Md. city lowers voting age for its elections to 16
Associated Press ^
| May 14, 2013 9:40 PM EDT
Posted on 05/14/2013 11:35:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A small Maryland city just outside the Washington, D.C., city limits has voted to lower the voting age for city elections to 16. …
The council also voted to allow convicted felons who have served their time to vote. …
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 16yearsold; felonvote; freakstate; takomapark; votingage
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posted on
05/14/2013 11:35:01 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
05/14/2013 11:51:38 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: Olog-hai
Are they going to have teachers telling the kids how to vote and busing them to the polling stations?
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:09:22 AM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Olog-hai
Nothing like having young idiots voting for their own benefits. Heck sure works for the older folks too!
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:12:32 AM PDT
by
Deagle
(quo)
To: RginTN
Something tells me that we’ll be seeing more of this kind of thing. If a felon who has served his time can vote, shouldn’t he also be able to own a firearm incidentally? as long as we’re restoring their rights and all.
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:12:33 AM PDT
by
RC one
To: Olog-hai
Don’t you just love it when those that have no income and pay no taxes decide our fate!...hehe.
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:13:23 AM PDT
by
Deagle
(quo)
To: Olog-hai
imho the voting age should be raised to 25 and that too, only after two conditions:
1. A person has served at least 1 year for society -- this can be the military or reserve or volunteer work (doctors, nurses, engineers, even hair-dressers for the elderly or poor) or community work (cleaning graffiti etc)
2. They have paid at least 6 months of taxes
People should realise that voting is a privilege granted to those who become a member of and contribute to society
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posted on
05/15/2013 1:21:36 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
To: Olog-hai
Somehow I knew, before clicking the link, that this would turn out to be the Peoples’ Republic of Takoma Park. As liberal as Maryland is, these guys make the rest of the state look like the John Birch Society, in comparison. . .
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posted on
05/15/2013 1:27:05 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
To: RC one
Something tells me that we’ll be seeing more of this kind of thing. If a felon who has served his time can vote, shouldn’t he also be able to own a firearm incidentally? as long as we’re restoring their rights and all. I hadn't thought of ex-felons having their 2nd amendment rights restored...Leftists are so inconsistent when it comes to liberty.
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posted on
05/15/2013 2:24:24 AM PDT
by
RginTN
To: Cronos
I have always shared that thought too. Have to be 25 to vote and have paid taxes for at least a year. You really don’t know much about life at all until you are at least 25. The difference in maturity between 18 and 25 is huge.
To: Olog-hai
The human brain does not fully develop until about age 25. It would make sense to align the voting age with the age of physical maturity.
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:06:28 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: RginTN
I admire the Liberals as they leave no stone unturned on their march to total victory. I wish we would do the same.
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:10:59 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Deagle
It’s all their years of experience and wisdom. 16 year olds are well known for their good decision making.
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:29:15 AM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: Cronos
———A person has served at least 1 year for society -——
BS...you just took my vote away...
I serve society by paying taxes...and in my church...
The rest of your post is spot on...
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:36:41 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
To: Olog-hai
Takoma Park, MD, of course, a well known nuclear free zone. Now that Doctor Raoul Demming of the Takoma Park Demmings is no longer with us, the City idiots think they can get away with anything.
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:42:41 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(01-21-13, Obama declares war on The Constitution of the United States)
To: Deagle
I think property ownership should be a voting requirement. Like it was back in the day.
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posted on
05/15/2013 3:48:25 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Olog-hai
Minors, felons, illegals and dead people. The ideal democrat voters.
To: Salgak
Takoma Park. I knew it without reading it.
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posted on
05/15/2013 4:35:55 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Olog-hai
and of course all the illegal aliens...
after all their DREAMer kids are voting in high school...
its only fair, dignified and respectable...
To: Olog-hai
Next they’ll disallow military voters
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posted on
05/15/2013 4:49:16 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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