Topics include what's wrong with the US constitution, how to think about the popular vote, whether there is a duty to vote, whether compulsory voting is good, and whether we should fix democracy by using enlightened preference voting.
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brennan: Few countries let people vote before eighteen, and I don’t know if anyone lets them vote before sixteen. The argument is usually that twelve-year-olds are ignorant, twelve-year-olds are uninformed. And they’re right. We have statistics about how much they know. But there’s a problem here if you say, “This fourteen-year-old is not allowed to vote because they’re this ignorant.” I can find 40 percent of the U.S. population that’s also that ignorant. What’s so special about that?
So, most of the arguments you see in favor of disenfranchising the young also apply to much of the rest of the population, but they’re allowed to vote because they’re older. The argument about ignorance is not really doing the work in explaining why older people can vote but younger people cannot.