Posted on 04/07/2018 7:48:17 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
California's effort to get 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote has now enlisted 100,000 teenagers, according to information released on Friday by Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
“This is a big milestone,” Padilla said. “I’m optimistic it’s going to translate into action at the ballot box.” The program, which began in the fall of 2016, automatically activates the teen’s registration at age 18. State officials reported that more than 10% of the total number of pre-registrations have come in just the last few weeks.
Padilla said there’s been a noticeable uptick in teenagers signing up following the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February and last month’s nationwide protests over gun violence.
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Indeed their names will show up in elections California like Cook county Ill.
Good thing we have the electoral college.
Their votes won’t matter any more now than they did before.
They should give out a free package of tide pods with every ballot
Is there anything on earth more vacuous than a California teenager?
They can hardly wait to vote away their civil rights to the fascist nanny state.
This upcoming historically/civilly illiterate generation will preside over and facilitate the greatest loss of liberty in US history.
Just one more portal to enable fraud on the legit voters.
California’s effort to get 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote has now enlisted 100,000 teenagers, according to information released on Friday by Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
This does not matter on the national level since all of California’s electoral votes will go to what ever Democrat is on the ballot.
Where this will come into play is in state wide initiatives. The left have found they can get constitutional changes via the initiative and they will “lock in” things the the legislature (even as left wing as they are) are afraid to do.
I have no doubt that every one of those 100,000 will vote in every election (even if they don’t know they have done so).
How long before California openly declares that everyone should vote, regardless of age, citizenship or criminal status? Sanctuary cities may be just the beginning.
Is there anything on earth more vacuous than a California teenager?
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I remember watching Jay Leno years ago. They were discussing dropping the voting age to 16. Jay said the number one reason that is a bad idea is because we would have President Jessica Simpson.
And in another news story it is reported that 1/3 of millennials don’t believe the earth is round! Personally, I think the voting age should be raised back to 21.
OK,... 16 year old California boys are now registered to be DRAFTED!
My son got his FL drivers license a year ago and he was pre-registered to vote at that time. He was going to list his party as Democrat, my husband was able to convince him to at least do “no party affiliation.”
That will just go towards the Democrats advantage in the popular vote and nothing else.
Progressives’ only concern about children is their need to use children as emotional political fodder. Their abortion stance is their tell.
And in another news story it is reported that 1/3 of millennials don’t believe the earth is round! Personally, I think the voting age should be raised back to 21.
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21? I say 40.
Democrats love immature and uninformed voters.
Feb 26,2008 “History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens” said the majority of surveyed 17 year olds failed to place WWII after the Civil War and thought Columbus sailed in 1750.
These geniuses have lots of half-baked ideas pressed into their minds by leftist school teachers with even worse college days ahead for their careers as progressive rioters who love socialism but cannot define the word.
They will all suddenly find their Facebook pages inundated with Leftist propaganda, and mailboxes and email too.
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