Kid Rights

Children will be allowed to vote in Germany if some leading members of the country’s parliament have their way.

The proposal, seen as a counter-balance to an aging population resistant to welfare cuts, would give parents one proxy vote per child, according to Reuters.

But at least one proponent – Michael Kruse, deputy head of the German Children’s Charity – thinks children should do the voting themselves in order to avoid conflict in families.

Reuters said 47 MPs support a cross-party motion calling for the right to vote from birth.

‘A fifth of the population is excluded from elections,’ said Klaus Haupt of the Free Democrats party, a leader of the initiative.

“Two hundred years ago nobody could imagine that every male citizen would be able to vote and 100 years ago people couldn’t imagine that every woman should vote,” he said, according to Reuters. “Now they can’t imagine that everybody should vote from birth.”
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After they ask the parents the name for the Birth certificate I guess they will now ask the baby what party they want to register for voting. “What was that? Whaaaa, Whaaaa, Whaaaa. If they want a tax but before there umbilical cord is cut, then it’s another Republican. Oh another Democrat.” There will also be the special interest kids groups like Kindergarten lobbyists who will lobby for increased nap time and play time during class. They will also need kid lawyers to sue the courts to advance their special interests and I guess they would have to pass the monkey bar exam first.