re: #1585 keloyd

I agree unreservedly that voters with ‘skin in the game’ are better voters. Being a veteran, owning property, literacy - good voters need all that to make altruistic and well-informed decisions. We should have restrictions of all kinds on the condition that they didn’t get used to “gerrymander” the electorate…like it has every time, every place before.

I’m fine with 18 year olds voting because even though 9 out of 10 are pathetically ignorant, they don’t bother voting, so no harm no foul.

I understand your impluse here, but I can’t agree. All citizens have ‘skin in the game’ —-by virtue of being citizens. Obviously we have to have some kind of restriction— which we do, the age of 18.

You can’t start creating other conditions without disenfranchising and disempowering huge segments of the population.
Not even all of us vote, as it is. Those concerned enough to vote shouldn’t ever be disenfranchised, even if (ESPECIALLY IF, in a democracy) we don’t agree with them.