Illinois Proposal wants to allow 17 year olds to vote....

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spurgeonryan said:

sc94597 said:
I don't see why not. Age restrictions on voting mean very little today among the highly uneducated masses. Furthermore, seventeen year olds can work and pay taxes just like adults. I think the age requirement for voting should be the same as the age at which somebody can drop out of high school. Thus we have a baseline for the lowest-common-denominator of voting persons.

So 17 year olds can vote, but when it comes to actually being an adult, they are not? What about in a murder case? Or what about freedoms like Smoking and whatever else that happens at 18? I guess if kids can join the military at 17, then they can vote at 17.

they only allow 17 year olds to vote in the primaries if they will be 18 before the actual election. So the voting age is still 18 esentially.