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Of unrealistic optimism and extending the franchise

Bob Jones Unedited: "I'm serious when I say lift the voting age to 30 for by then voters will hopefully have gained some knowledge."

Fri, 27 Oct 2017

Sir Geoffrey Palmer’s latest urging (on top of his written constitution advocacy which is gaining no traction) is to lower the voting age to 16, thus allowing school-children to participate. That’s explicable as Geoff has always suffered from an idealistic view of his fellow citizenry, doubtless

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