tucson.social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Missouri teens want to lower the voting age to 16 in local and school elections

news.stlpublicradio.org

external-link
message-square
66
link
fedilink
219
external-link

Missouri teens want to lower the voting age to 16 in local and school elections

news.stlpublicradio.org

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
message-square
66
link
fedilink
Organizers of Vote16MO said that will allow teens to be more involved in decisions that affect their lives.
  • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    The hottest take is that the voting age should automatically slide to be the youngest age someone has been tried as an adult in the justice system…

    • CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      2 years ago

      Or lowest age to work without parental consent. Otherwise 16 year olds can’t vote for who gets to tax them.

    • harpoonicorn@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 years ago

      That’s a damn fine take right there.

Politics@beehaw.org

politics@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it’s a political happening, you can post it here.


Guidelines for submissions:
  • Where possible, post the original source of information.
    • If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
  • Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
  • Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
  • Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
  • Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Socialism

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 115 users / day
  • 360 users / week
  • 1.15K users / month
  • 3.44K users / 6 months
  • 5 local subscribers
  • 10.6K subscribers
  • 2.78K Posts
  • 18.8K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
  • JuBe@beehaw.org
  • JCPhoenix@beehaw.org
  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.org
  • circularfish@beehaw.org
  • knokelmaat@beehaw.org
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org