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Buddy · Seaman Recruit Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 18

I believe that at 18 years old the mind is stll basically uninformed on important issues. The voting age should be increased to at least 23. I know about the issue of "If your old enough to fight, your old enough to vote". During WWII the voting age was 21. It wasn't lowered till after I was 21 in 1968. You could possibly make an exception for military members. The country would be better served with more mature voters. I hope this next election doesn't come down to the wire. I live in Florida and don't want to hear again the whining of "voters" (I use that term loosely) who claim the voting methods are just to difficult to understand. What a bunch of illiterate, good for nothing, lazy, state supported flotsum of society. I don't know how to exclude illiterate people. Other than to have a civics test. But the democrats would have legal tantrum to the nth degree.
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Buddy

95 bxl · Seaman Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 179

At this point, I would be happy if every voter had to prove their citizenship to register to vote.

With the current registration systems in place, a Monrovian barn-headed ape could register, and then vote, merely because he SAID he was an American.

If I could do it, I would set up a certain date... say, 1 January, 2005, where everyone's voter registration would be voided, and everyone would be required to register IN PERSON, with PROOF of citizenship.

Imagine how many millions of voters would fall off the rolls... especially the dead voters and the non-American citizen voters.

colmurph · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 2:51 am Post subject:

[quote="95 bxl"]At this point, I would be happy if every voter had to prove their citizenship to register to vote.

Hell, I'd be happy enough if they just had to prove that they were alive!
All his life my dad was a conservative Republican (He had a job and worked) while most of his siblings were Democrats (out of work on the dole and coming around to the house for handouts). Now that he resides in Mount Laurel Cemetery he is voting the straight Democratic ticket and has been ever since his death in 1974. I've checked the voter registration and he's voting from a house that we moved out of in 1949. I'll tell you......the Democrats must be a pretty powerful group if they can bring someone back from the dead! I wonder how the black family that lives there now likes sharing their digs with a ghost?