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[AjaySTomar]

Everyone should be able to vote because it will allow everyone to participate in the process of choosing their government; otherwise, there will be more abuses than now exist.

[Good_Egg]

Everyone should be able to vote because it will allow everyone to participate in the process of choosing their government; otherwise, there will be more abuses than now exist.

Everybody ? Including seven-year-old children ? Including tourists who are only in the country for a week ? Including illegal immigrants ?

And if I live in a constituency that is a safe seat for some particular party, how exactly is casting a zero-impact vote contributing to the choice of government ?

[Pattern-chaser]

Everyone should be able to vote because it will allow everyone to participate in the process of choosing their government; otherwise, there will be more abuses than now exist.

Everybody ? Including seven-year-old children ? Including tourists who are only in the country for a week ? Including illegal immigrants ?

Children are not adults, so they are a special case in most matters, including the right to vote. Tourists and immigrants are not citizens, so they have no say, and no vote.

But you know that. I wonder how saying, as you have, will carry the discussion farther...?

[Pattern-chaser]

And if I live in a constituency that is a safe seat for some particular party, how exactly is casting a zero-impact vote contributing to the choice of government ?

The right to vote (the subject of this topic), and the process by which elections are carried out, are two different things. Are you trying to obscure issues here, not to clarify them? Is this some kind of 'spoiler'?

[Belinda]

I think suffrage should be tied to levels of education, which usually is itself tied to age. Also curriculums should include empathy -----which can actually be taught and often is taught through the medium of the arts. There are age related stages at which individuals gradually become capable of fully developed adult empathy