"Why stop with 14-year-olds?"

Here's an OC Register editorial on John Vasconcellos' attempt to get the vote to 14-year-olds:

First of all, a significant number of California's high school graduates are already functionally illiterate, so extending rights to other cognitively challenged citizens seems only fair. Furthermore, voters in Depends constitute one of the fastest-growing classes of enfranchised citizens in the Golden State. Allowing Pampers people equal access thus can be seen as a logical extension of the basic democratic principle that government has no business peering into people's underwear...

Previous coverage of this matter starts here.

Unfortunately, my statement about most people just playing this for laughs still holds. There must be some reason why he wants to change "entitled" to "authorized" and hopefully we'll find out before it's too late to do anything about it.

California · Fri, 03/12/2004 - 11:57 · · Importance: 1