{"id":172,"date":"2020-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/proposition-18-vote-yes\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"proposition-18-vote-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/proposition-18-vote-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition 18: Vote YES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span><font size=\"4\">ACA 4 (Resolution, Chapter 30). Mullin. Elections: Voting Age.<\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px\"><a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.churchimpact.org\/\/uploads\/4\/1\/4\/8\/41486323\/yes-on-18_orig.jpg?w=1160\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\"><\/a><span style=\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block;\">This measure would allow 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general election to vote in primaries and special elections. The argument for this measure is that it would engage youth in greater likelihood of voting in general elections. Voting is essential, and we support the sentiments embodied in former President Barack Obama\u2019s eulogy for Rep. John Lewis, champion of the Voting Rights Act:\u00a0<em><strong>\u201c&#8230;we (must) remember what John [Lewis] said: \u2018If you don\u2019t do everything you can to change things, then they will remain the same. You only pass this way once. You have to give it all you have.\u2019 As long as young people are protesting in the streets, hoping real change takes hold, I\u2019m hopeful; but we cannot casually abandon them at the ballot box&#8230;We cannot treat voting as an errand to run if we have some time. We have to treat it as the most important action we can take on behalf of democracy.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACA 4 (Resolution, Chapter 30). Mullin. Elections: Voting Age. This measure would allow 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/proposition-18-vote-yes\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}