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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 months agoWe already have an enormous problem of completely unqualified voters being able to vote, so let’s not make it even worse. (in the States, anyway)
loldog191@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
ive given this A LOT of dwell time and thought, and i think we’re both partially right and wrong.
even when the negatives outweigh the positives, some things are worth doing. every solution is just accounting for as many of the things that can go wrong as we can imagine. but even when things go wrong, we can always fix it. your democracy has gone wrong, and it isn’t enough to just point out the things going wrong. you have to fix it too.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 months ago
There’s also practical application and real-world effect to consider. Giving kids the vote wouldn’t help the situation, and in fact wouldn’t happen anyway, even if the last remaining legit party was in charge, here.
Now in theory, if you wanted to set up some kind of voting application test to see how well the potential voter was familiar with real facts & reality, allowing them to vote if they passed, then that might indeed be an argument for lowering the voting age. In fact, it almost would have saved democracy in the 2016 election, as I alluded to above.