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Not really. I honestly think that getting teens to vote would provide them reason to pay attention in civics and government courses, considering it's they that might help decide in major issues that effect them. Imagine if teens were able to vote against Bush to end the war so they could join the military without having to go to Iraq. Wouldn't that be spectacular? Or, something I've mentioned above, imagine what public schools would look like if kids could allocate funds via voting so that their textbooks don't talk about a moon landing in the future tense and talk about the women's rights movement to be a success instead of a fad. Heaven forbid that kids get the opportunity to effect the world in which they live and learn some responsibility.
It's not bad that every adult (sans convicts) citizen can vote. It's a good thing. It allows the concerns of the many to be addressed instead of the few. If only people who had an IQ over 130 could vote or only people who got over a B in government in high school could vote, how would the poor or downtrodden defend themselves? The point is that because it's right to allow every adult to vote because they're citizens, it should be right to allow minors to vote. It's a positive thing. The thing is that people keep bringing up exclusion points that are just as applicable to adults. "If they let kids vote, they'd vote in Hillary Duff" could be replaced with "If they let adults vote, they'd vote in George Cloony". It really doesn't make any sense. Hillary Duff isn't over 35, and there's no way she could get on any ticket.
Undereducated? They're learning in school now what most voters learned years ago and have since forgotten. I'd say that they could potentially be more informed than their adult counterparts. I was better to prepared to vote at 16 than both my parents (one of whom actually voted for Bush, and has since been disowned).
I believe it's from a book. Influence from adults will always be there to a point, but can you really look back at when you were 16 and 17 and say you'd vote for whomever your parents said? I mean some kids are just as likely to vote against what their parents say out of spite as a part of their individuation process (learning to become an individual often means rebellion against one's parents).
He's a psychologist, so the expertise comes into play.
Children are fantastic at keeping secrets, especially from their parents. Short of admission, the parent cannot get the information any more than I can go online and find who you voted for in 2004. I have no clue where you get the idea that children are poor liars, and more so I have no clue as to why you'd think that so many parents would try to force their child to vote for someone. Why do you think the average parent would do that when the average parent doesn't even vote? Total turnout in the US 2004 elections was 123,535,883. There were 221,285,099 voting age adult citizens in the US in 2004.
Kids can't be unlawfully anything because "unlawful" means against the law. Children cannot be denied due process, cannot be falsely imprisoned, and in many cases can be covered by free speech and religion, though they should be covered completely.