youth voting Options

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not quite sure if this is the right forum, sorry

what is the point of this whole youth voting movement? if the kids of age are oblivious to the election to begin with, what makes them think that once they register to vote, kids will take the time to find out any of the political info that would make them smart voters?so, what does anyone really gain from ignorant voters? they dont really care, so theyre going to vote for whichever canidate they find superficially better, so what is the point of encouraging kids to vote when those who care planned to anyway?

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Of course, of course. I wasn't targeting only you when I said that. There are many people who will straight out deny that teens should vote before thinking and that's what I wanted to address.

Actually, I was guilty of thinking kids shouldn't vote before debating with a couple politically savvy ones on cB. Now, I know better.

i deinitely think some kids should be able to vote- the well informed ones, but i dont think they should encourage young voters to vote when theyre just going to pick someone randomly. they were encouraging these people at the end of my lunch table to register to vote, but i doubt any of them would know republican from a democrat (i just typed remocrat, whoops ) if they came up and started bludgeoning them with campaign signs.

maybe there should be some sort of short political awareness test that people under a certain age should have to take to be able to vote, as that way they would actually be able to lower the voting age without worrying about the ignorant brainwashed little kids who will just go and vote for whoever their parents tell them to. as much as i hate tests, if it meant i could vote id be willing to do that