It would at least open the door to education on political systems and how they work in the leadup to elections, which I don’t ever recall happening when I was at school.
That can be done independently. Most adults can be responsible enough to vote responsibly, with those that aren't being pretty negligible realistically speaking. It's a matter of educating them.
Like in school for example? :p
Kids can't. Their judgement is biologically clouded. It doesn't matter how well you educate them, most only care how good the politician's Instagram is.
What are your thoughts on pregnant/menstruating people voting?
People going through hormone therapy for whatever reason?
People with mental illnesses?
People suffering effects/withdrawals from prescription meds, or even just hangovers?
Also your drug argument falls apart because most people aren't constantly high so unless you go to vote while high I don't see how that is relevant.
I was referring more to caffeine and booze. Both influence how you think when using them in the short-term, and both influence sleep, which will also influence how you think.
Also any tolerance inducing thing like nicotine that can affect how you feel if you don’t get it into your system.
As an addendum to the biological clouding stuff above, should we thus also say people who are using anything that clouds thinking to also not be able to vote?
What's like a first world problem but in the first world? There are bigger issues for you guys than squeakers not being able to vote because muh representation.
I’m just engaging in the topic at hand; I think young people are just like old people.
My answer to the whole teen voter issue is this. Back in high school we had a mock mayoral election, the trump-equivalent won. This is in contrast to the real election where the adults elected someone reasonable. This was before trump was even a thing btw.
My point is that young people are very easily charmed by populism and “quirkinesses”. If you asked a student about their thought process during a student council election, you would know that they shouldn’t touch real elections with a 10-foot pole.
Considering populists are getting voted in almost everywhere- and if America is anything to go by, able to convince people to attempt to violently overthrow a government based on utter nonsense - old folks are not exactly the best at seeing through bullshit either.
There’s a also a significant difference between a mock election with (presumably) zero consequences and a legitimate election that will affect life going forward. As mentioned above, young folks are in prime position to be educated on how their votes can shape the world around them. Teacher in the class with that mock election perhaps should have followed up with something so the students understood that.
