Yep, she knows how impressionable they are, and how good "free stuff" looks to them. Many/most of them have no real understanding of earning one's own way. And if they can vote the proceeds of the treasury to themselves, they'll do it in a heartbeat. In short, young people WILL vote D, almost as a whole.

I was listening to Shelia Jackson (the D. Houston Rep) talk this morning on the news about all the wonderful stuff her district is getting from this new "rescue" package. What a shameful person she is, promulgating a shameful, immoral law.

Maybe if government was really small and had a clearly defined role, it wouldn't matter who we chose.

You'll think I'm crazy but think about this: What if we drafted people to serve in government? People over xx years of age drafted for a 2 or 3 year hitch just like we used to do for the military. I know we'd get some idiots but don't we get them now?

Winning candidates have been pre-selected for decades, until Trump upset the Deep State plan in 2016. The People haven't had a candidate of their own since 1984, and Reagan was by that time controlled by the Deep State, too.

40 to vote in lieu of testing for rational thinking. If one size has to fit all, probably over 80's shouldn't vote (or hold office) either. I favor testing. One size doesn't fit all. It never has. All men are not created equal, nor do all "adults" exhibit improvement in thinking with age.

Isn't it nice how the Democrats want no ID for voting yet Mayor Lightweight in Chicago said that you had to produce an ID to get your China virus shot because too many people were getting shots. You can't make this stuff up.

My home is in Florida. I spend time in Georgia during summer/fall. While in Florida I went to county elections office and requested a mail in ballot be sent to me in Georgia. Filled out all the paperwork. Got my ballot by mail in Georgia and signed and returned it.
Like you in Texas, this is the way it is SUPPOSED to be done.

At 16 most people have no clue what their government does, what their vote means, or what the constitution says. They have little life experience to draw on to make decisions and no investment in the outcome because they are almost exclusively parasites on their parents (and on the taxpayers.) Most have not been taught to make rational decisions.
Letting anyone vote (regardless of age) without ability to think rationally, or without the experience to make a rational decision, or without the understanding of the true history of the constitution and bill of rights, socialism, free market capitalism, monarchy, corruption from power, and many other things is utter foolishness and a recipe for disaster. This is what changes to the original constitution that have widened suffrage and expanded government political power have wrought. Expanding suffrage to more irrational beings is more foolishness.