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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Again, you're kidding, right?
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Again, no.
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Any crimes committed while a minor are null and void after your 18th birthday. They have no bearing on your ability to vote unless you did something so severe that you are tried as an adult.
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We're talking about felonies. In general, they are severe. If severity has a bearing here - maybe we need to judge the seriousness of any given election in order to determine how old one must be in order to partake. But we don't - we set an absolute cut-off of 18 or older. We do not apply that same logic to "trying someone as an adult". Apparently, someone under 18 can "prove" their adulthood by commiting a crime - but they can never prove their adulthood in order to vote. And yet we still apply the same disenfranchisement by virtue of their proof of adulthood via crime.
That's ridiculous.