Thread: Voter ID
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Old 21-05-2023, 10:37   #95
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Re: Voter ID
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post

They aren't allowed to...
But you can sign up when you are a child, which commits you to go to the battlefield if required when you turn 18.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
What miraculous change happens between one second before midnight on the day before their 18th birthday and one second after midnight on the day of their birthday that changes that person from a child to an adult?

(Speaking as one someone who joined up when I was 17)

The voting age was changed from 21 to 18 in 1969 - did "maturity" suddenly change overnight then?
Of course not, but you are missing the point. The argument is that if you can sign up to fight when you’re 16, it is difficult to argue that you shouldn’t have the vote until 18.

Personally, I don’t think that adult thinking arrives for many until they are in their 20s, so 21 was a probably a better age to determine adulthood than 18, when most are still immature.
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