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[dawg day]

83. I actually think an UPPER age limit would be better.

And I'm 63.

After all, if you're 80, you won't worry too much about the consequences of your vote... and no surprise, it looks like at that age, a whole lot voted for Trump.

But the 15-year-old whose whole life is going to be affected by this election can't vote-- and can't count on her grandparents thinking of her when they vote, unfortunately.
What's the sense in that?

But I'm against literacy tests for voting. The problem with Trump voters isn't that they are illiterate. It's that they are angry (or whatever their problem is... I think it's simmering and unfocused anger, that Trump exploits, and so did the Tea Party).

In fact, if everyone who is over 18 now and a citizen were allowed to vote and every vote counted (millions and millions in California and NY don't, actually, certainly not as much as a few thousand in a few counties in Michigan), the Democrats would win every national election. There's so much voter suppression, starting with former felons who have served their sentence and should be restored to full rights, and elderly people without the right ID, and those in inner city precincts where access to the voting machines is quite limited so it's hard for them to get to vote and work.

While we're at it, the electoral college has to go. It "elected" the two worst presidents since the civil war, and that's a sign, if we need one, that it's undemocratic and ineffective.