
04:41:25
Rutgers alumn here!!

04:46:21
https://www.childrenvoting.org

04:46:35
Thank you Sylvie

04:53:22
I could see the proxy voting being abused

04:53:52
Yeah, I'm wondering about the same thing.

04:54:12
on the other hand, the current system is also being abused on a sense...this way it would just make it possible for more people to "take advantage" of it?

04:54:27
Right

04:55:06
in spain for example, some political parties were taking really old people to vote with closed envelopes and not knowing what they were voting for...:S

04:55:08
Abused in that you think the proxy would vote not inline with the needs of the individual?

04:55:25
Right, or claim a proxy when there isn't

04:56:27
I love that, John!

04:56:28
My question is about how to ensure that youth are not being impacted by the adults in their lives - parents, teachers, priests - and able to think independently - for themselves.

04:56:48
Good question Mary

04:57:00
I think we already have that problem with adults. Most adults don't know how to think for themselves.

04:57:05
How is that different from adults being impacted in the same way?

04:57:10
True

04:57:35
I strongly believe we need to reintroduce into education some kind of training in how to think for yourself.

04:58:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fC-IDa5u8

04:59:20
(Also, the argument used to be that women didn't need the right to vote because they would be influenced by their husbands.)

05:00:30
@Joules..yes that has been used for many disenfranchised groups

05:01:08
^ Yes, that. Many of the reasons we give today for why kids don't need to, or shouldn't, vote are the exact same reasons we used to give for why other marginalized groups didn't need to or shouldn't vote.

05:02:28
(not intelligent enough, not educated enough, not competent, too weak-minded and gullible, …)

05:02:30
It related yo my middle son's frustrations around age minimum for starting/running certain businesses, etc.

05:02:41
*It relates to

05:02:45
www.clearerthinking.org

05:03:02
We've seen some very clear thinkers this weekend!

05:03:43
I think it's so important to include children in voting, so that down the road they can shape to laws in ways that are supporting to them.

05:03:49
Jerry do you have a link to this video?

05:03:59
Thanks for sharing Mila

05:04:31
Amanda, haha, agreed.

05:04:33
Capital or lowercase M?

05:06:13
I can't find where the videos are on the website

05:06:31
I'm not sure if I missed this info at the beginning of the presentation since I came in a few minutes late, but at what age did the speaker propose that children get to vote?

05:06:32
Children's Voting Colloquium website: https://www.childrenvoting.org/

05:06:48
This feels like a natural extension of the democratic education movement. I have found that when people of any age are given authentic opportunities to participate in decision making that impacts themselves and their community, they take the responsibility very seriously.

05:07:56
SO TRUE about accepting authoritarianism because of being raised in an authoritarian manner