Monday, February 6, 2023

Rockville to hold public hearing tonight on voting age, size of the City Council in future elections


Rockville's Mayor and Council will hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the city's election laws tonight, Monday, February 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM at City Hall. Changes being considered by the elected officials include lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, permitting non-citizens to vote, setting term limits, creating representative districts instead of electing all seats on an at-large basis, creating an administrative process to fill a vacancy on the council, changing election years to coincide with presidential or gubernatorial elections, and implementing ranked-choice voting. The Mayor and Council will consider the public input from tonight's hearing when it discusses the changes at its February 27 meeting, before taking a final vote.

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6 comments:

  1. Leave voting age alone, only citizens vote leave conceal and carry alone unless proof that crime has increased by people who have the permit.

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  2. I don't understand lowering the voting age,it doesn't seem to make sense.

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  3. This is one of the craziest things I have ever heard of.

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  4. Lot of good ideas to get as many city residents as possible politically active. Being aloof and politically unengaged simply is worse than being an active participant in trying to improve the city.

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  5. I'm all for having younger voters engaged, but what I'm not for is teaching them that Marijuana is good for them so it's now legal,or that it's alright for them to have sex change surgery, or that America is an evil country, or that Christianity is worthless, pretty much everything the politicians that 16 year olds would vote for endorse and propagate.

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  6. As far as I am concerned, if you are not a citizen you have no rights to vote!!!!

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