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Bill: Lower voting age
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Left Party - Equality First
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 4272
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:54:00, September 14, 2017 CET | From | Likatonian Union of Fascists | To | Debating the Lower voting age |
| Message | Non adults should not be aloud to vote they are to heavily influenced by there parents |
| Date | 13:13:07, September 14, 2017 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Lower voting age |
| Message | Certainly at that age parents' influence is what adolescents try to react to, so I would say the normal reaction is to oppose them. Anyway the ideology of a 16-year old is not yet well defined by mature arguments. |
| Date | 21:47:22, September 14, 2017 CET | From | Nationalist Party of Likatonia | To | Debating the Lower voting age |
| Message | I must concur with the SLP, on this matter. Non adults should not be allowed to vote, for they lack sufficient education, and experiences needed to make an informed decision. We feel our most pressing issue with voting is the percentage of those with suffrage either not voting, or not being able to, due to inaccessibility, or other hindrances. I would like to see the ULF-EF party focus on increasing voter participation, rather than further de-legitimizing our elections. Also our 18 year olds are already among the least active voters, this can lead to the conclusion that 16 year olds would be as indifferent, if not more-so, about voting. Vice President Abraham Ducksworth, Of the PSPL |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 425 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr. |