U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pitching a bill that would allow young people in every state to pre-register to vote when they’re 16 years old, along with requiring colleges and universities to have on-campus polling places.
Warren on Monday, along with Georgia U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, are introducing the “Youth Voting Rights Act,” which would expand youth access to voting.
The legislation would require states to establish pre-registration voting processes for 16 and 17 year olds, and let states expand their pre-registration processes to youth younger than 16.
The bill would also mandate that colleges and universities have on-campus polling places and order that states accept student IDs to meet voter-identification requirements in federal elections.
“Voting is the beating heart of our democracy,” Warren said in a statement. “Young people are the future of America, and with voting rights under attack across the country, we must do everything we can to ensure they can exercise their right to vote.
“My new bicameral bill with Congresswoman Williams will ensure young people aren’t left out of the voting process, and I’m thrilled to partner with her and my colleagues on this effort,” the Massachusetts senator added.
The bill would enforce the 26th Amendment, formally ratified in 1971 and prohibits the denial of the right to vote on account of age for all citizens aged 18 or older.
However, the reps backing the bill said the amendment’s promise remains unfilled, as young voters participate in elections at lower rates than older voters. Their provisional ballots and mail-in ballots are rejected at disproportionate rates, and they routinely face obstacles to voter registration and in-person voting.
“It has never been more important to protect the health of our democracy and defend the most fundamental right of every American — the right to vote,” Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said in a statement. “The Youth Voting Rights Act will ensure young Americans, who represent the future of our democracy, are equal parts eager and empowered to participate in their first election by the time they turn eighteen.”
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Don’t be hoodwinked, this is not the ultimate goal, it’s merely a step to lower the voting age so young persons who do not yet live in the real world where votes actually affect their personal lives will be enticed to vote for what sounds good, all liberal enticements sound too good, but ends up not quite what ti was touted to be!
The goal is in the fourth paragraph, “…order that states accept student IDs to meet voter-identification requirements in federal elections.”
How many non-citizens attend college and have college IDs?
LOTS… BUT i keep asking leftists. HOW IS IT ok to say someone’s mature enough to vote at 16, or get gender reassignment surgery etc, but is NOT MATURE ENOUGH to smoke, drink, or get a gun, til 21????
Total and utter sheer hypocristy!
The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
AND the cowardice of the RINOS, knows no bounds either..
Why stop at age 16 ???…, how about allowing our children to vote from the womb? Bye Bye Democrat party and all the hell they stand for. One gentle press of the belly button would signal a Conservative vote meaning yes,,,,two or more kicks in mom’s Gut would definitely signal to ignore anything that a mad hatchet weidling mom like Warren wants to accomplish. Democrats are so good at recognizing kicks in the gut and kicks when your down, especially right after economically coming out of a COVID Coma and you cannot afford a gallon of gas and baby formula is nowhere to be found.
Well, they already let illegals and the dead vote.. So who knows, maybe all the left’s aborted babies, ARE getting registered?! Who knows.
I agree. Before you even consider such a move, you should watch a movie called “Wild in the streets”. It’s about 15-year Olds taking over the Government. Farfetched? If this mental midget gets her way, Elizabeth might be one of the first to be re-educated or eliminated. This was a scary movie if you can find it.
Get ’em while they’re young, ignorant, and incapable of discerning Lieawatha’s forked tongue…
Especially since the left, Controls the indoctrination centers, formerly known as schools!
Bad idea—and consider the source.
“The bill would also mandate that colleges and universities have on-campus polling places and order that states accept student IDs to meet voter-identification requirements in federal elections.”
Ah yes, colleges and universities, the new Churches of the radical left religion where media messiahs and mendicant messiahs of social entitlement redistribution are born out of whole cloth that resembles nothing of swaddling clothes and human perfection. Incubation chambers of anti-Christ cocooning, where evil is allowed to flourish and come into fruition for sale on the open market of political greed and ambition. Warren considers it her safe places, but in truth are really the places where minds like hers get imprisoned in Envy, Gluttony, Lust, greed, sloth, wrath and Pride. If this be higher education, then the dance bar has been lowered below that of Limbo, and pure hell is not far away.
WHY IS IT that they want Colleges to be voting precincts. BUT NOT MILITARY BASES?
how about you go play in traffic ms warren
This from the women who doesn’t think anybody of any age should be allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Calling her a blatant hypocrite would be too kind.
Did she just sanction a form of voter ID ???? Obviously a Biden like slip of the lip.
He guys, could you wake up to that every morning ? I’d have to take an ice pick to my eyes !
The persona of the proverbial hank of hair, piece of bone, empty head, and cavernous mouth. Even a rabid hyena or coyote would pass on her for a dinner. Her real given Indian name is Babbling skunk.
16 year olds have no skin in the game. They’ve never had to support a family, pay a mortgage, pay taxes. They have absolutely no clue about the consequences of making poor choices in elections. No way they should be allowed to vote! As for forcing colleges to have polling places, students should be voting in their home precincts unless they’ve permanently moved to their college town. I had no trouble voting via absentee ballot during my 4 years at school. You just need to fill in the application correctly and get it in on time.
The fake indian must be watching too many late movies made in the 1960s like “Wild In The Streets.”
I did some fact checking into “Squats With Unions” comment. It should read: “Voting is the cheating heart of our Democrat Party,” Warren said in a statement.
Take a good look at that women’s eyes, she is crazy.
I loved how she would go absolutely apoplectic/bonkers about Trump!
21…18…now 16… why not 6 years old??? Here’s how to get the Creatures to become anti-abortion!! Make voting age (by proxy of course) 6days old!!!