Posted on 11/01/2016 10:37:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
“The oldest living American, as of October 27, 2016, is Adele Dunlap of New Jersey, 113, who was born on Dec. 12, 1902.”
The earliest she could have voted is 1924, unless her state allowed 18 year olds to vote at such an early time, in which she could have made the 1922 midterms.
Little before your time?
It would’ve been 1924. Apparently Georgia was the first state to allow 18-year olds to vote in 1943. A terrible idea, to be sure. Minimum age to vote should be the same for holding office in the U.S. House, 25. I’ll bet had that been the case, elections such as those in 1916, 1960 (absent fraud) and 1976 (for example) would’ve turned out differently.
I used to disagree with you cause I remembered how mad I was that I missed being able to vote in 2000 by a year. But I finally realized I’m over 30 now so how the hell does that matter ;d.
Now I’m fully in favor of raising the voting age, it’s way too easy to vote, they don’t let morons perform surgery so why let them choose the most powerful person on the planet.
I can’t believe I’ve been voting for 24 years (just mailed off my absentee, only had 3 things on the ballot: President, U.S. House and our unopposed buffoon of a Dem State Rep, I wrote in her prior GOP opponent). Although at 18 in 1992, I was way more informed than probably 99% of the electorate.
Anything where you’re voting on the power to tax (and hence the power to destroy), voting MUST be a privilege and not an explicit right, and should be only for those producing wealth who have skin in the game, not for those taking, and certainly not for the bulk of those (save military/law enforcement/emergency) employed by the government. You’d have a swift return to responsible governance again as the Founders wanted, no more tens of trillions of dollars in debt or strange Marxist foreign-raised agitators or crooked feminist lawyers in high office.
As far as I know, no state allowed 18 year olds to vote before the 26th Amendment was ratified in 1971.
Some did. See post 23.
The wiki article of the amendment says in 1970 4 states had a lower age than 21, Georgia (1943, 18), Kentucky (1955 18), Alaska (19) and Hawaii (19).
At the least, no one on welfare.
And I’d have an intelligence test, English literacy, basic math, history, civics, GED stuff. No spelling or grammar or anything hard like that. ;d
Should someone be allowed to choose a Senator if they don’t know what a Senator does? I say no.
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