They are sooooooooooo fucking mad that gen z caused the GOP to get wrecked in the midterms lol. Absolutely fuming.
Do we need to care what this guy thinks?
Not yet but I wouldn’t be suprised to see Trump and/or Desantis pick this idea up. Also, I think its both 1. funny and 2. telling how scared they are of gen z.
It certainly opens a can of worms though, I can see the democrats pushing for 16 (Scotland’s done the same and it’s further pushed the conservatives out of power there).
It’ll also be far easier to fight the GOP proposal in court as there will be people who are actively disenfranchised by raising the age, but it’s not clear that existing voters could have standing to sue if we enfranchise younger people.
It is literally enshrined in the 26th admendment.
Do you think they have the votes for a constitutional amendment undoing the 26th? I don’t.
It is just something they can run on and never mention again once elected because it has zero chance. Their followers will forget anyway, they always do, just like how they “forgot” they supported Bush and an illegal war in Iraq.
Nah, they’re going to murder him in the first debate - he’s the highest-polling candidate who they can attack without pissing anybody off, it’ll be like that Simpsons joke about how at the start of a nuclear war every allied power will bomb Springfield simultaneously to test their weapons.
Sure, as long as we also have a competency test for retirees as well.
I wonder who scores better?
Competency tests for everyone!
“These are librul questions! The test is BIASED! The hollowcost is a lie! Ain’t no Jews get killed in WWII!”
And then someone gets in that decides that “competency” means whatever they want it to mean, and enough of their party mates run with it, and before you know it we’re back to shit like this:
So we’re scrapping the 26th amendment, huh?
Not that people who spend all their time purging the voter rolls and making it hard to vote ever cared for it anyway.
But yeah this is a little harder to make happen than this chucklefuck might think. Good thing to run on since he can’t follow through on it.
But really, we do need a voting competency test.
I know why this idea seems attractive to people sometimes, but I don’t trust the people in power to administer one in an unbiased way.
We need a fair competency test for all voters, young and old. However there is no way to make and maintain a fair test that has no chance for corruption. So every citizen gets a right to vote with no exceptions. Anything restricting voter rights needs abolished
Since everybody gets to vote we should make sure everyone’s competent to vote by educating them.
At least that was part of the reasoning behind free public education.
Automatic voter registration needs to happen as well as federal holiday for voting with required day off work for everyone.
Many people lose the chance to vote by being purged from voter rolls or not having time to vote when the voting booth is miles away and they work a 10 hour shift.
We need walls around our water sources!
Damn it, that doesn’t sound nearly as far-fetched as it was supposed to, actually. In real life, they’d be moats not walls, because it makes less sense.
I mean, if you can’t swim across some water to get your water, did you really want water, after all?
I feel the opposite. We should have mandatory voting for all federal general elections. Treat it like jury duty or taxes - voting is a civic duty. You should be compelled to cast a ballot even if you leave it blank because you have no preference.
Of course, this can only workwith automatic voter registration and 100% mail-in ballots.
Wait, so his proposal is for voters to become more informed before stepping into a voting booth? Did he think this through?
If conservatives are getting crushed now wait til gen z spite-votes against anything conservative because now they have a better understanding of how democracy is supposed to work. Prime leopardsatemyface in the making.
He is not. He’s proposing bringing back literacy tests.
The more you know eh?
That’s super troubling, especially this bit from the wiki article
The Supreme Court then upheld the ban as constitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), but just for federal elections.
So it sounds like we could return to literacy tests at a state or local level but I’ve never heard of that happening, so there must be separate state level bans on that practice or something. Would have to look into it to form an opinion.
