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Bill: Lowered voting age
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Gadurios (CPG/PCG)
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: November 4521
Description[?]:
| We propose lowering the voting age. |
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 | 23:40:32, January 25, 2019 CET | From | Technocratic Assembly | To | Debating the Lowered voting age |
| Message | The voting age is mostly an arbitrary cutoff, but it's nevertheless better to have it later than sooner, as the brain and subsequently intellectual and reasoning processes are more developed after puberty; hence we are opposed. |
| Date | 10:47:32, January 26, 2019 CET | From | Gaduridos Freedom Party | To | Debating the Lowered voting age |
| Message | True. Citizens need to be able to make informed decisions to vote. If younger people were allowed to vote, they would not be educated enough to make an informed decision and they may end up electing a candidate that does not truly represent them. |
| Date | 11:37:18, January 26, 2019 CET | From | Communist Party of Gadurios (CPG/PCG) | To | Debating the Lowered voting age |
| Message | We do provide advanced political education to all students, so we think they know enugh to be abke to vote. While the brain isn't fully developed at the proposed age we don't think it's a reason to leave people out of the democratic process. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 69 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics." - Wendell Phillips |