That vote at 16 thing...

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16 year olds are buying drugs and alcohol. Vaping, getting into trouble, have police records, get injured, get themselves killed - so what?

So do a hell of a lot of adults.

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Exactly. They are also more likely to be better educated than most adult voters...

You are contradicting yourself, you claim its about human lives, but at the same time happy if they continue to buy drugs and alcohol and harm their health.
The pure truth is schools indoctrinate radical left politics in class and they are likely to vote left. I.e greens.
The whole country will turn communist at that rate.

That isn't pure truth. It's pure something else, but I'm trying to be ladylike today. Seems to me you haven't been in a school for quite a while.

And nowhere did I say I was happy about the reality of other people's lives. I don't however pretend that reality isn't a fact of life. Just because some kids do what some adults do does not mean they shouldn't have similar electoral privileges.

And for the record, we live in a socialist country. It isn't that bad, is it? After all, if it was you would've moved by now, right?

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By the way, according to Auntie Google, that is about 200,000 young people. 22% approx of 18 year olds voted at the last election - so we might predict similar turnouts for the new group. That's 44000 spread across the electorates.

Not exactly enough to turn Aotearoa into a communist den of iniquity.

Or get the Greens into a majority.

Worse luck.