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brickers on July 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next gener...

How does that work for e.g. infants? Doesn’t it give unscrupulous parents of those children an extra vote?

maxerickson on July 17, 2025 | [–]

I think the execution is probably difficult, but in principle you can make the requirement that the voter marks a valid ballot by themself.

Interacts badly with mail in and lots of other issues of course.

hunglee2 on July 17, 2025 | [–]

fine - they have more at stake. Might actually encourage having more children, increase familial voting power

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