Hey, didn’t we try out proportional people during the slavery era?
Four Democratic California lawmakers on Monday proposed giving teenagers as young as 14 the right to vote in a move that would make the often trailblazing state the first in the nation to do so.
Under the proposal, youths under the current legal voting age of 18 would be able to cast ballots in state and local elections only, although their vote would not have full weight that an adult vote would.
For example, a vote cast by a 14 or 15-year-old would be counted as a quarter of a vote, and a vote by a 16 or 17-year-old would be counted as half a vote.
Seems like an administrative mess to me, trying to verify ages, tally fractional votes (some state already have problems adding whole numbers), and partition the state and federal ballot. Is it worth the trouble? I think there are easier ways to get kids involved in the political process. Like making it interesting in school.