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Originally posted by The diplomat
I read on the French newspaper Le Monde, that some right wing parties in Europe want children to have a vote. The way it would work is that parents would get an extra vote per child.
For example, say a couple has 1 child. The father could vote twice (his vote + his child's vote) and the mother would vote once or vice versa. Another example: a single mom with 2 children could vote 3 times, once for her and once for each child.
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This is the stupidest idea I have ever heard of in my life.
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Shi Huangdi
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Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 1999
time: 00:32
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Originally posted by Japher
Kid votes? SHeit we'll have Christmas every month!!!
Stupid Kid Lobby's... I say we take away the right to vote away from anyone ignorant (kids), stupid (kids), and senile (old ppl, mentally handy cap, or just a drug user)... There are already too many irrational votes cast. |
I always thought it would be nice if in order to vote you first had to answer a few basic History/Civics questions such as how many branches of government are there, who issued the emancipation proclomation, who was our enemy during the Revolutinary war, what percentage of Congresional votes is needed to overturn a veto, etc. This way we could weed out the total moron vote. It'd never happen though, because the Democrats wouldn't agree since they would lose too many votes.
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:32
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if children get a right to vote, the power rangers party will rule the world
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:32
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extra votes per child would result in those too dumb to contraceive becoming the most powerful
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Monk
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I don't think we're in Brønshøj anymore
Jan 1970
time: 06:32
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I always thought it would be nice if in order to vote you first had to answer a few basic History/Civics questions such as how many branches of government are there, who issued the emancipation proclomation, who was our enemy during the Revolutinary war, what percentage of Congresional votes is needed to overturn a veto, etc. This way we could weed out the total moron vote.
Okay Shi, so I take it you're in favour of taxation without representation? Well, you're probably not in favour of taxation at all, but you get the general idea. When the government takes my money away from people, the very least they can demand is that they have some sort of say over how that money is spent. Of course, not counting the fact that the idea would be quite difficult and expensive to carry out.
The percentage of Americans voting is too low already, and although I don't have seen any stats on the matter, I'd be surprised if the people who don't vote are the most clever ones.
Oh, and this idea sucks, but you all have to remember that the extremes on either side can and will go to all forms of nonsense to be mentioned in the press as they know they won't ever have to carry out their idea in real life. So a considerable amount of the controversial suggestions they put forth is just bogus 
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mrmitchell
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This is the worst idea I've heard in several weeks. Good job.
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I always thought it would be nice if in order to vote you first had to answer a few basic History/Civics questions such as how many branches of government are there, who issued the emancipation proclomation, who was our enemy during the Revolutinary war, what percentage of Congresional votes is needed to overturn a veto, etc. This way we could weed out the total moron vote. It'd never happen though, because the Democrats wouldn't agree since they would lose too many votes. |
Didn't the South use that to prevent usually poorly educated blacks* from voting? Even if they were very smart, that doesn't prevent a crooked test-grader from failing him just because he's black.
*I'm not indicating that blacks are idiots. I'm indicating that, yes, African Americans in the early and mid 1900s were more likely to be uneducated than whites because of segregated schools that favored whites over blacks.
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mrmitchell
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By the way, the thread title is misleading. Children aren't actually gaining any rights at all, their parents are instead gaining first-class citizenship with 2 or more votes for one man (while infertile, single, and other unfortunate citizens who certainly can't control their own fate are shafted.)
A more accurate thread title would be "The stupidest idea of the week," "Dumbasses abound!", or "Severe mental disorders: Symptoms."
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