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Originally posted by cowtown
Welcome to California! We're screwed up, but we like it here anyway!
From the Contra Costa Times (http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/8140666.htm?1c)
...Sen. John Vasconcellos on Monday introduced a bill that would allow anyone 14 or older to vote -- at least fractionally -- starting as early as 2006.
The proposal, which would grant people ages 16 and 17 a half-vote and those who are 14 and 15 a quarter-vote, is the final legislative push by the termed-out San Jose Democrat, an unapologetic liberal and the father of California's self-esteem movement.
"We're just children, or that's what some people think," said Victoria Martinez, 14, of San Jose, who supports the bill. "But we do have minds and political views."
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that's just absolutely assinine. giving individuals with no life experience the ability to vote. what a nice way for dems to stack the votes in their favor