Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing a constitutional amendment that requiring citizens 18 to 24 to pass a civics test in order to vote - the same one immigrants take to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
But Ramaswamy has been facing some backlash over his voting plan, including from young voters who accuse him of hypocrisy for using his youth as a campaign selling point. Politico"People like Vivek Ramaswamy who are using their age as an element to try and stand out to Gen-Z, they're very obviously wolves in sheep's clothing," said Lucas Robinson, a young voter from Texas."People our age can really see through people like that.
"Instead of trying to represent young people, what we're seeing is this effort to try and take us out of the equation," Mayer told CBS News at theMayer noted that other conservatives, like GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell, haveIn general, younger voters gravitate toward Democratic candidates, and if Ramaswamy were able to get his amendment passed, it could reduce the number of voters ages 18 to 24, and this could cause a shift in favor of Republican candidates.
"Wanting to raise the voting age is really nothing more than trying to make the playing field more stacked than it already is," Robinson said. As a typically progressive voter, Robinson worries about how this proposal could impact Democratic candidates. Ramaswamy's plan may also raise concerns about its resemblance to literacy tests that were used in the South before the Voting Rights Act to keep poorer and Black citizens from voting. However, his campaign said that the two are not the same and reiterated that Ramaswamy's proposal is about civic pride, not about keeping people from voting.from June 7 shows only 13% of likely GOP primary voters are considering a vote for Ramaswamy.
But even if Ramaswamy were elected, this amendment would be highly unlikely to become law because amending the Constitution is so difficult. It would require either a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate or it would have to be requested by two-thirds of the states. After that, it would still have to be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
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