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What are the benefits of allowing children to vote? I don't see any.

Many kids wouldn't vote anyway, like young adults. Those that did vote would either be following parents' instructions or just nerds.

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sternhammer:I am claiming that there is still some correlation that would remain after you knock those things outThis is what's known as "shared environment". Many people are sure it's there a priori, but what isn't genetic is usually nonshared environment.

Nancy, I don't vote and like Jacob the grad student I have no problem with my franchise being restricted.

Voting isn't about information or policy.Voting affects policy. We (me and some others) want it to be about information to get better policy.

We could all pass any test all aces and then still vote candy for our in-group. In fact, that's what we would continue to do.Read Bryan Caplan. The Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis is simply false.

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