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Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16
The Hill ^ | 03/14/19 03:19 PM EDT | JOHN BOWDEN

Posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in the U.S.

Pelosi said Thursday that lowering the voting age would drive interest in politics among younger Americans who are learning about the subject in high school. The Speaker said that changing the voting age to 16 would help drive a higher level of voter awareness and turnout.

"I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16," Pelosi said. "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about government, to be able to vote."

Pelosi's comments Thursday echoed those she has made previously, including in a 2015 New York Times interview in which the Speaker said she was "all for" lowering the voting age.

Pelosi told the Times that she wanted to expand voter access to 16 and 17-year-olds “because when kids are in school, they’re so interested, they’re so engaged.”

The California congresswoman supported a local ballot initiative in her home district of San Francisco in 2016 that would have lowered the voting age in municipal elections to 16, known as Proposition F, but the measure was defeated by single digits at the ballot box.

Members of Congress voted down an amendment to the Democrats' voting rights bill last Thursday that sought to lower the federal voting age to 16, an effort led by freshman Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). Almost 130 lawmakers voted in favor of the amendment, which was described by advocates as a first of its kind proposal to make it to the...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: again; botox; california; capture; elections; fraud; nancypelosi; pelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; teens; voting; votingage
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[ Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16 ]

Why not 5? The chilruns can vote after nap time.


81 posted on 03/14/2019 11:51:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.

82 posted on 03/15/2019 12:19:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (this tagline space is now available)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Typial ‘rat drivel. I think the voting age should be raised to about 25.
83 posted on 03/15/2019 12:30:39 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: octex

Yep. It’s pathetic.


84 posted on 03/15/2019 12:32:03 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lookie here, if babies are old enough to be aborted, they are old enough to vote -


85 posted on 03/15/2019 12:49:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I seen this, she is an utter mess, she is shot! Dementia, Botox od, Alzheimer’s something is up with her she’s not right


86 posted on 03/15/2019 2:16:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So in other words, Nanzi...children are the only ones stupid enough to vote for you.


87 posted on 03/15/2019 2:25:36 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: null and void

“The human brain doesn’t finish all its developmental stages until age 25.

Just sayin’...”

So that means the Dems support no more ‘Juvenile Crimes’ since the Dems consider them aware and engaged; they must be aware of what is right and wrong....so no juvenile detention centers for a 16 yr old - straight to regular ‘adult’ jail for them....they can be held to a contract...etc etc

Ya right


88 posted on 03/15/2019 2:31:28 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Boy! Those Dims are really reaching for voters. They’ve been killing off their voter base for years and have to make it up with illegals and kids who are still wet behind the ears.

‘Face


89 posted on 03/15/2019 3:20:39 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school...

Key word: capture.

90 posted on 03/15/2019 3:30:26 AM PDT by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why not six then?


91 posted on 03/15/2019 3:47:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Young skulls full of mush. It should go back to 21 but not as long as you can become a service member at 18.


92 posted on 03/15/2019 3:54:09 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 . C)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in the U.S. “

Sometimes I favor leaving 16-year-olds on a tropical island for a year as part of manhood training. Those that survive could vote after they recuperate. Then, I’m currently parenting a sixteen-year-old, so I’m biased. Nancy has bodyguards to protect her from anyone under 30, so what does she know.


93 posted on 03/15/2019 3:56:12 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

interesting. Now, where is that Hans-Hermann Hoppe book I used to have ... something about democracy and a god that died ...

Lowering the voting age to 18 was insane, 16 is just a logical continuation of that insanity. Every expansion of the franchise has resulted in another step toward oblivion. We are not being kept from Nirvana by a lack of voters. We need a lot fewer people voting.


94 posted on 03/15/2019 4:04:03 AM PDT by cdcdawg (A couple more election cycles and they won't even need vote fraud)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My 16 year old high school junior just came home with a voter registration form! Apparently this is an area that need me to be looked at much, much closer. Can’t vote for Trump until 2020 but here you have personal info on a youngster being provided to partisans way in advance of legal voting age.

Are they stealing identities, voting for them, targeting our youths? All of the above? You can’t even get a credit report on your kid at this age. When they hit 18, are they gonna find accounts open in their names? No reason whatsoever for a 16 year old to register to vote right now. None.

The commies are harvesting.


95 posted on 03/15/2019 4:24:05 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: House Atreides

If you are not aborted a you can vote.


96 posted on 03/15/2019 4:27:33 AM PDT by cp124 (I didnÂ’t leave America, it left me.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SCOTUS doesn’t allow capital punishment for those under 18, with Kennedy saying their brains aren’t fully developed and cannot appreciate the consequences of their actions.

And now the Dems want 16 year olds to vote ???


97 posted on 03/15/2019 4:47:02 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He can drive to the polling place with mom with his permit.


98 posted on 03/15/2019 5:17:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s wacky as all get out. Sure Nance, got to reel them in before their frontal lobes are fully developed.


99 posted on 03/15/2019 5:18:37 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These are the people who think that a person’s brain isn’t fully mature until 29, and that adults under 29 should be carried on their parents’ health insurance, and not prosecuted as an adult.


100 posted on 03/15/2019 5:20:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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