Votes for children Why we should lower the voting age to six

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bell-cot · 10d ago

(2021)

The arguably-better way to remove the gerontocratic bias in voting age would be to eliminate voting right for anyone with a remaining life expectancy below 18 years.

I see little chance of either idea being implemented. Though it could be interesting to poll the pronatalists on the "voting age of 6" idea.

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Votes for children Why we should lower the voting age to six

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