I don't feel 16 year olds are mature enough to vote but what do I know? In the USA nonexistent people and the dead vote Democrat in every national  election.

Nice hyperbole response there Maria.

None of you have been able to articulately give a single reason why a 16 year old shouldn't be allowed to register and vote. 16 year olds are working, they are being taxed, its their future being carved up by Boomers/Late Gen X. Why shouldn't 16 year olds be allowed to vote? Oh right, because Liberals do absolutely zero for a youth vote, they actively use the youth as a punching bag for the vast majority of their "Tough on bludgers" reforms and the youth are the ones that are almost always on the receiving end of first cuts.

Again, elections are massively skewed to the boomer/Late Gen X demographic already, the youth vote needs reform to allow young people to have a voice. I would argue in fact there has been very little in budgets from Labor and Liberal that do much for anyone <30.

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Oh because Boomers totally don't deserve the ire of younger generations.

Voting against climate change reform, ripping off the tax system for decades, skyrocketing housing prices, destruction of infrastructure, numerous budgets of boomer vote buying?

There's a reason Boomers are known across the western world as "The Selfish Generation".

And like you Maria of all people can talk of "hatred of everyone" when you specifically view everyone "below you" as subhuman. I honestly don't think I've been in contact with a more genuine fascist than you.

Old enough to work, old enough to vote. Doesn't matter how many.

Again, I fail to see any legitimate arguments against moving the age down to 16. Teens today are quite politically informed.

Also Teens who don't want to vote DON'T HAVE TO VOTE, everyone has the freedom to register when they wish.

I have literally no idea what you are sh*tposting about.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 1:11pm:


That's easy to see!

Not true at all, I engage with teenagers alot through work and social groups, they are very politically informed.

If you want to get rid of voting based on being politically informed, then 80% of people wouldn't be allowed to vote.

Also again a 16 year old would have to register to vote, so only the politically willing would register.

Again, I see no real legitimate arguments against this, there are also no solutions to Boomer dominance in the polls with a rapidly ageing population. 16 year olds should be allowed to vote on the sole grounds that youth representation is almost non-existent in Politics. Why should the future be decided by Boomers who only care to line their own pockets with investment properties from their super?

So should they be able to sign contracts?

Ughh - this poo again.  We need to more selective about who gets a vote, not less. 

If we wanted our country to function well, we should drop the following groups from the electoral eligibility:

retards
People over 85
People under 25
Those who own no land
Those who pay no tax, or tax under a certain threshold
Prisoners

But the powers that be will never let this happen - the more chaff there is on the electoral roll, the less they are held to account, and the harder it is for intelligent, discerning people to right the ship when it founders.