Sunday, July 22, 2007

Deja Vu.

Lowering voting age to 16 rejected
A proposal by Green MP Sue Bradford to lower the voting age to 16 has received short shrift from respondents to a Herald-DigiPoll.
An overwhelming 91.3 per cent of people polled said the voting age should not be lowered from 18 to 16.
Just 6.8 per cent agreed with the franchise being extended to 16-year-olds.
The result did not surprise Ms Bradford, who said she had seen similar survey results elsewhere.
"I've always seen it as a long-term campaign. It is something amazingly radical for people but I don't think it's radical at all."


Shades of the repeal of Sec. 59. Since when did a majority public opinion have any impact on this person ... and she endeavours to denigrate the consensual, 'dismissed as self-serving simplistic nonsense,' by demeaning the majority with the notion that she is a seer.
Overall this is absurd, but past success has obviously re-energised this person's irrational strivings ... we should be afraid.

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