Head of University Calls to Give 6 Year Olds Voting Rights

Children as young as six should be able to vote in general elections to tackle age bias in society, Cambridge University’s head of politics has said.

Professor David Runciman said the British voting system was weighted against the young because older people yield far more votes, a problem made worse by an ageing population. . .

‘I would lower the voting age to six, not 16, and I’m serious about that,’ he said. ‘I would want people who vote to be able to read, so I would exclude reception. . .

‘It is never going to happen in a million years but as a way of capturing just how structurally unbalanced our democracies have become, seriously, why not? Why not six-year-olds?’ he asked. . .

‘If you are in your 20s, you are not represented in your parliament, you keep losing elections and you are expected to care about the future, the environment, the unborn… it is your job as a young person to somehow take up causes that old people are a little bit long in the tooth to worry about.’ (Read more from “Head of University Calls to Give 6 Year Olds Voting Rights” HERE)

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