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Originally Posted by JohnBua
If you gave a kid 1000 dollars do any of you think they would make smart choices on what to do with it? Odds are they would have a stack of Pokemon cards and then starve.
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The same can be said of many adults. I went to high school with a few people who might blow it on lottery tickets.
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Terrible idea.
"VOTE FOR BUSH OR YOU ARE GROUNDED" comes the battle cry from the parents.
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How is that any different than a pastor telling people to vote for Bush? Should congregates from those churches have their votes not counted?
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
How many children do you think would (dare to) vote differently than their parents? All it would accomplish is diluting the voting pool, and encouraging more people to pop out 50 babies so they can all vote for the same candidate as the parents.
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No one is reading the OP, and it's pissing me off. Here is an excerpt:
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Originally Posted by The OP, which you all need to read in order to post
First, if children had the right to vote and enjoyed a greater autonomy and responsibility for their affairs, they would be likely to be much less readily influenced by adults. Children would probably value their own judgement and grow in independence so that parental influence would diminish. Holt makes a related point when he claims that a society which had changed its attitude towards children sufficiently to acknowledge their right to vote would be a society in which adults would not seek to coerce young people, or, if they did, such interference would be frowned upon.
Second, a secret ballot ensures the child's autonomy, since no adult could discover the child's electoral choice.
Third, the argument must be conceded in a special sense. The most influential determinant of our political allegiance is the political preferences of our parents. If I had to guess the party for which a particular individual voted and I could ask only a single question (excluding "which political party do you vote for?), I would be advised to ask "Which political party do your parents support? Butler and Stokes's study revealed that 89 per cent of Conservative voters have parents who are both Conservative voters and 92 per cent of Labour supporters have parents who both support the Labour Party. The children of 'politically mixed' marriages divided 48 per cent Conservative and 52 per cent Labour. These data are, of course, complicated by the emergence of the SDP/Liberal Alliance, but such evidence suggests that, whether we are ten, thirty, or sixty when we vote, the electoral behaviour and preferences of our parents are a powerful and lasting influence; to exclude only young people because of parental influence is therefore unjust...
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Originally Posted by JohnBua
Adults cannot have their food, shelter, schooling and entertainment denied by their boss because they voted for the "wrong" person. Nor can CNN discipline you or tell you how bad you are for doing so. PARENTS can do it to their CHILDREN, though.
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And how will parents know who their child voted for? You've voted before (I hope), you know that one person goes up at a time and votes in an area that's not visible to the public. In other words, there is no way for them to see who the child is voting for.