UK Residents Discuss Retiring Seniors from Voting in Elections

As another general election looms on the horizon for the United Kingdom, many voters who are staring down the barrel of the multi-generational impact of Brexit are asking once again if older people should be banned from voting.

The argument poses itself at a time of social and political conflict that has seen an inordinately large chasm develop between those young and older people, not only in the UK but also in the United States. The differences between the two are perhaps the most glaring when casting a gaze toward the future. Issues such as climate change, data security, LGBTQ Rights, Internet freedom and access rights, economic security that hasn’t scaled to meet the needs of this generation or future generations and many other issues that some young voters feel that older people don’t fully grasp, completely lack an awareness of or whose participation in election only promotes a hindrance to- or absolute reversal- of progress on issues that will impact the majority for decades to come.

Voter rights advocates, however, are calling foul, claiming that voting rights are not negotiable and such alienation from civic duty would set a dangerous precedent that could open the door to discrimination against other groups of qualified voters who have a dissenting opinion from the masses.