so my topic is changing the voting system and allowing teenagers to vote. changing the voting system by making it more accessible and fine those who dont vote. what part of the government would i need to change and how would i change it. how am i suppose to get the money to support this, what taxes should be raised. what part of the government would be responsible for this change?
Stuck with my mock congress bill (changing voting system)?
All you mentioned would be the least of your problems.
First, and your biggest problem to overcome, would be in getting the power to hold elections moved from the states to the Federal Government, which currently does not hold any election for any office in the Federal government.
After having accomplished this, the rest would be markedly easier as you would have proved you have the dictatorial power necessary and the states would have acceded to your wishes.
What you鈥檙e proposing is not a simple change of law but would require a Constitutional Amendment that would require a 2/3 vote in both the Senate and House and ratification by 3/4 of the states before it could be added to the Constitution.
Not too easy.
Stuck with my mock congress bill (changing voting system)?
Change the whole thing from the bottom up.
The election board is a good place to start.
Teenage voting tax, on cigarettes.
That should work.
If not,
You should call the department of WTF? WTF.com./, they have all the answers.
Oh my...that's a difficult one. You'd have to convince people to give up their right to choose whether or not to vote. You would have to have financing for people to seek out and force people to vote. You would have to convince adults that the teenagers of our failing school systems are knowledgeable and mature enough to vote (and convince them that someone who isn't old enough to serve their country should be eligible to vote). You might want to change the laws concerning minors not being allowed to enter into contracts and minors being treated differently in the court systems (get rid of juvenile courts) since teenagers would be taking on the adult responsibilities of voting.
If you use cigarette taxes, remember that the number of smokers decrease every year, especially as many states are passing smoking bans. So eventually you would need to tax something else to raise the money that you need to force the citizens to do what you want. If this benefits teenagers, why not tax those under 18?
