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Skitty; impaled.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 659 | August 31st, 2008 at 12:30pm Perhaps.
But I know that many people wouldn't bother to, either because they don't feel it's important or they're just not interested, or regard it as a joke to vote for the worst candidate or something. The juvenile to mature ratio in my school, at least, is much higher. |
callingallskeletons.
Ink Slinger
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 830 | September 17th, 2008 at 05:07am The only reason I'd ever get a fake ID would so that I could vote :] |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | September 17th, 2008 at 05:22am Great Scott!:The only reason I'd ever get a fake ID would so that I could vote :] A fake ID wouldn't allow you to vote.  You have to present more information for voting registration than an ID. |
callingallskeletons.
Ink Slinger
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 830 | September 17th, 2008 at 07:09am Kurtni St. Cyr:Great Scott!:The only reason I'd ever get a fake ID would so that I could vote :] A fake ID wouldn't allow you to vote. You have to present more information for voting registration than an ID.
... I wasn't meaning literally. It was a bad joke. I know you need a whole lot more than an ID to vote. LOL. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | September 17th, 2008 at 01:13pm Great Scott!:Kurtni St. Cyr:Great Scott!:The only reason I'd ever get a fake ID would so that I could vote :] A fake ID wouldn't allow you to vote. You have to present more information for voting registration than an ID.
... I wasn't meaning literally. It was a bad joke. I know you need a whole lot more than an ID to vote. LOL. Once again, I have failed to pick up on internet sarcasm :cob:
 sorry |
Kmart.
Writer's Block
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 56 | October 6th, 2008 at 03:20pm I would have killed to vote in this years election. I'm one of the few at my school who is actually keeping up with the election, and watching all the debates, etc. But I think until teens start taking things more seriously, then we'll just have to wait till we're eighteen. |
violet hill
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 1035 | October 11th, 2008 at 01:03am Not to be mean, but even in my case, an adult would probably make a wiser decision. Since most of the platforms are for them too. |
say it lover-SAY IT.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 303 | October 11th, 2008 at 04:24am Definately not. 16 year old don't have enough knowledge of
what all of this means to be able to vote.
I doubt that some 18 year olds do. |
Freddie Mercury.
Grammar Guru
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 5401 | October 11th, 2008 at 05:07am say it lover-SAY IT.:Definately not. 16 year old don't have enough knowledge of
what all of this means to be able to vote.
I doubt that some 18 year olds do.
I'm 15 and I understand totally.
I actually agree that they shouldn't be able to vote, but I'm just saying. |
Sara
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 3475 | October 12th, 2008 at 01:58am At the age of 16 you can ask the courts to treat you like an adult. Adults can vote. As just turning 16, I would love the oppurtunity to vote with my own name. At this moment, since neither of my parents were planning on voting, I told them to vote for me. 16 years olds are effected just as much by who gets voted in as an adult [drinking ages, tutition, general laws]. For example in 1&a half years, I'm off to college. Who ever is elected on tueday will effect how much I pay. But the desiosion isn't up to me who wins, it's up to older people that are done with school.
Yes, I agree, some [and most] 16 year olds don't care enough to vote, but according so most statistics neither do most adults. only 33% of people ages 18-23 are even registered. |
Bloodraine
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1312 | October 13th, 2008 at 08:04pm I'm actually quite surprised at how many people are saying they don't want the voting age to be lowered to 16. I mean, come on, you're all very articulate, engaged young people, probably more interested than most adults, I can't see why you wouldn't want to vote. So what if young people might 'make the wrong decision'? Under 18s would be a small minority of voters, so they wouldn't exactly determine an election result. Furthermore, I don't think there is a right or wrong way to vote. I mean, I think it was quite wrong that the adults here kept voting for Thatcher time after time, but I defend their right to do so anyway.
I suspect that if people are too immature to vote, then they won't do it. But it is my belief that 16 year olds actually do have the 'intelligence' to vote and deserve the right to do so. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | October 15th, 2008 at 01:20pm Bloodraine:I'm actually quite surprised at how many people are saying they don't want the voting age to be lowered to 16. I mean, come on, you're all very articulate, engaged young people, probably more interested than most adults, I can't see why you wouldn't want to vote. So what if young people might 'make the wrong decision'?
The people in this thread reflect a very small minority of the actual population of teenagers under 18, and I personally don't think it's an accurate reflection. That's why even though I'd love to vote of course, I'd never suggest lowering the age.
Bloodraine:Under 18s would be a small minority of voters, so they wouldn't exactly determine an election result. Furthermore, I don't think there is a right or wrong way to vote. I mean, I think it was quite wrong that the adults here kept voting for Thatcher time after time, but I defend their right to do so anyway.
I suspect that if people are too immature to vote, then they won't do it. But it is my belief that 16 year olds actually do have the 'intelligence' to vote and deserve the right to do so.
I don't think you can vote a wrong way, but I think you can vote for the wrong reason. Using the US election as an example, Obama is extremely popular with younger people. But, if I ask anyone in my school why they support him... they have no idea. They don't know his policies or what he stands for. I think the majority of 16 year olds are too impressionable to vote just yet. There are other ways they can be involved if they so choose. |
Bloodraine
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1312 | October 15th, 2008 at 07:08pm Kurtni Parlo:I don't think you can vote a wrong way, but I think you can vote for the wrong reason. Using the US election as an example, Obama is extremely popular with younger people. But, if I ask anyone in my school why they support him... they have no idea. They don't know his policies or what he stands for. I think the majority of 16 year olds are too impressionable to vote just yet. There are other ways they can be involved if they so choose.
Can't adults vote for the wrong reasons too?
I think they can, quite frankly. Unlike voting, there is no age limit on being ill-informed, so I think it is just as possible for an adult to vote with only a vague knowledge of Obama's policies than it is for a 16 year old.
I also don't understand how one can vote for a wrong reason, either. It seems almost elitist, to suggest that you need a certain awareness to make a political choice valid. Maybe teenagers would vote for Obama because they like his media image and rhetoric, but who are we to say that that is the wrong reason to vote?
Furthermore, I don't think members of Mibba and the average teenager are so far removed from eachother. Maybe I just have an optimistic view of teenage intelligence. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | October 16th, 2008 at 04:03am Bloodraine: Maybe I just have an optimistic view of teenage intelligence. Precisely what I was thinking. I just don't think choosing the leader of a country is something that should be chanced with optimism. |
thereismymind
Writer's Block
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 7 | October 16th, 2008 at 08:29pm I would like to say yes, simply because I feel I am educated on political issues more so than a lot of adults.
I can't bring myself to feel that way though, you should have to be an adult in order to vote, because parents would be forcing their children to vote certain ways\, and we don't want that.  I think those two years make a big difference between thinking for yourself, and only believing what your family tells you is right.
18 Is a perfectly suitable age to vote.
The only exception is a 17 year old who is enlisted in the military, they should be able to vote. You can't say somebody is old enough to protect / defend our country but not old enough to help make decisions it it! |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | October 16th, 2008 at 10:24pm thereismymind:
The only exception is a 17 year old who is enlisted in the military, they should be able to vote. You can't say somebody is old enough to protect / defend our country but not old enough to help make decisions it it!
But no one is saying that because you aren't forced to list in the military when you're 17, you make the choice to do so at your own free will, knowing you cannot vote for the country you're defending. |
thereismymind
Writer's Block
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 7 | October 17th, 2008 at 01:38am Kurtni Parlo:thereismymind:
The only exception is a 17 year old who is enlisted in the military, they should be able to vote. You can't say somebody is old enough to protect / defend our country but not old enough to help make decisions in it!
But no one is saying that because you aren't forced to list in the military when you're 17, you make the choice to do so at your own free will, knowing you cannot vote for the country you're defending.
Thats besides the point....of course they know they will be unable to vote until they reach 18.
It's just my opinion if somebody is mature enough to go to war, they're mature enough to know who they're voting for. If you think otherwise, maybe something should be done about early enlistment into the military.
Shrugs. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3353 | October 17th, 2008 at 02:53am thereismymind:
It's just my opinion if somebody is mature enough to go to war
What makes you say you have to be mature to go to war? |
thereismymind
Writer's Block
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 7 | October 17th, 2008 at 04:49am Kurtni Parlo:thereismymind:
It's just my opinion if somebody is mature enough to go to war
What makes you say you have to be mature to go to war?
Well obviously the military doesn't just let everybody in. Which is why there are age regulations in the first place.... It's not like they're letting complete idiots serve the country.
But for the most part the military will take what they can get when it comes to soldiers, and treat them as adults, but they won't give them the rights of an adult.
I guess we all have our opinions. (-: |
Geesecks.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Posts: 2981 | October 17th, 2008 at 05:09am thereismymind:Kurtni Parlo:thereismymind:
It's just my opinion if somebody is mature enough to go to war
What makes you say you have to be mature to go to war?
Well obviously the military doesn't just let everybody in. Which is why there are age regulations in the first place.... It's not like they're letting complete idiots serve the country.
But for the most part the military will take what they can get when it comes to soldiers, and treat them as adults, but they won't give them the rights of an adult.
I guess we all have our opinions. (-:
You think everyone that enlists in the military is mature? I knew quite a few guys in high school that had signed up and they were far from mature. They were all accepted.
Enlisting in the army is a choice, not a requirement.
The age limit is there for a reason, and I personally think it should be made higher before lowered. |
