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minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up75·2 days agoI attended a very rural school district and in 7th grade a bunch of retired people got their friends to elect them to the school board and at their first meeting they closed my school. But hey, it’s OK. They’re all dead now.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoVoting needs a max age cap, and it needs to be lowered to 15-16 imo.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 day agoShould be 21-28 years only.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoNah, people 30-60 could reasonably expect 20-40 years of life left. That’s a long time to be disenfranchised. Likewise 21 is a weird American number for adulthood, so I’m certainly not in favour of raising the minimum to such an age.
I attended a very rural school district and in 7th grade a bunch of retired people got their friends to elect them to the school board and at their first meeting they closed my school.
But hey, it’s OK. They’re all dead now.
I love a happy ending.
Voting needs a max age cap, and it needs to be lowered to 15-16 imo.
Should be 21-28 years only.
Nah, people 30-60 could reasonably expect 20-40 years of life left. That’s a long time to be disenfranchised.
Likewise 21 is a weird American number for adulthood, so I’m certainly not in favour of raising the minimum to such an age.