Endorsement: Yes on Proposition 18: Some 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote (via latimesopinion)
Parolees should get their right to vote restored while they are on parole.
It is true that under Proposition 18, some 17-year-olds would be able to vote in local elections, such as those for school bonds and other tax proposals;, such as district attorney and city council, that enable candidates who get more than 50% of the vote to avoid a November runoff; and in rare special elections to fill seats in the Legislature and Congress that have become vacant through resignation or death.
Opponents also argue that letting 17-year-old high school students vote in school bond elections could amplify the influence of teachers unions, since teachers have a captive audience to whom they could proselytize. That seems far-fetched. Anyone who has lived in a house with a teenager knows that rebelling against what adults tell them to do is a rite of passage. Besides, the same argument was made more than a century ago to deny women the right to vote.
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