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Originally Posted by Jamie89
Did you see my reasoning though? It's not so much about taking the age limit away and blanketly allowing everyone to vote, as much as it would be about refocusing on what criteria is used in determining who gets to vote ie. people who have no political knowledge v people who have political knowledge (as most of the reasoning I've seen on the thread seems to be suggesting a lack of political knowledge as the main reason 16 year olds shouldn't get to vote).
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What so you want to get people to do some sort of test now before they get to vote? Besides the fact that that's massively undemocratic, it would be expensive, time consuming and too open to corruption imo