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The Right to Vote Should be Stripped from People Older than 65.

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In a blog post by Kris Eckland, he states that seniors over the age of 65 should have the right to vote.

          Kris starts off his argument by saying that seniors may not even be on social media. He links to a reliable source suggesting that seniors don't know how to use the new digital gadgets. This argument actually proves a point that seniors should not vote. They grow increasingly ignorant on the new world sources. They aren't able to get factual evidence from the internet or watch videos on the other sides perspective. A senior could be far right or far left, which could be due to how they grew up, but they wouldn't know the actual rights they are voting for.  Also, after I clicked on Kris's source I saw that his own article seems to be against elders. It states that people over the age of 65 are usually the ones spreading fake news and it could be due to the lack of digital literacy. In fact, senior people are seven time more likely to spread fake news articles. On another view on Kris's point have found an article that states that 62% of seniors over the age of 65 are on Facebook.

       Kris states that the elderly do in fact care about climate change. He even references the Huffington post in which it states elderly against climate change. This isn't a trend amongst the elderly. Although, I do recognize that there are some elderly that do infect care, there is a far more large percentage of elderly that don't. In an article by Gallup, it states that 70 % of people ages from 18-34 are worried a great deal about climate change. While only 56% of people over the age of 55 are worried about climate change. There is a very interesting statistic within the article that asks if the person is worried that global warming would "pose a serious threat in your lifetime". It shows that 51% of people aged 18-34 believe it will while only 29% of people aged 55 and over believe it will. This just shows how elderly people really shouldn't get the vote. I say this because, not to be morbid, but most elderly people over the age of 65 will not be here when these changes start to take effect. Therefore, they should not have a say on how the world will be when they're gone.

       After this argument Kris writes that beliefs in same sex marriage and racial issues change as people age. Yet he doesn't link to any articles or videos that prove his point. This is merely an opinion. In an article posted by Public Opinion the statistic show that only 31% of senior citizens over the age of 65 support same-sex marriage. This is just one of the many articles that prove that a whopping number of older people are against LGBTQ+. This raises concern as same sex marriage has become more prevalent and many politicians have strong views and opinions on it. We as a society need to move forward rather than backwards, if senior citizens are allowed to vote, they could vote against same sex marriages. As for the facial discrimination, it is hard to determine whether older people are. This is because people won't outright say that they are, but we do know that they grew up in a time where racism was very prominent. So have their views carried to this day and age? Thats a question that may not have an answer.

     One other point Kris had made was that many elderly folks did not have the write to vote until very recently, the 1960's being the latest. He stated that women got the right to vote in 1916. So I decided to do some quick math and found that 1916 was in fact 104 years ago. If my calculations are correct that would mean that at the legal age of 19 to vote that would put a women at the age of 123 years old. And thats only if they were born in 1916. I did some research and found that in 2019 there were only 10,795 people over the age of 100 that live in Canada. Also a quick google search revealed that the oldest woman to ever live was Jeanne Calment, who lived to the age of 122 years old. This would prove that women over the age over 65 living currently were born well after the right to vote was passed. As for elderly who are aboriginal, there is a statistic that shows that in the 2015 election, only 1.9% of aboriginal peoples voted in the election. This shows that First Nations peoples aren't inclined to vote, so therefore, I don't believe it would harm the elderly people in any way.

     In Kris's last argument he states that the elderly aren't against younger people who vote because they themselves were young at some point. This point doesn't make much sense, because yes everyone is young at one point and everyone grows up, thats just life. It is not a determining factor on whether or not older people believe young people should or should not vote.

    In conclusion I don't believe that older people should be allowed to vote. And as a risk I will use this video as my conclusion.


Note: I used google trends to find the most SEO title. I used right to vote because in comparison to ability to vote, it had a larger number, as shown in this ratio 64:1. I used stripped instead of taken away because the ratio was 83:17. I used older than rather than over the age because it had SEO ratio of 73:37. I used people instead of citizens because the SEO was 80:8.

     

     

FOI Request

                               FOI Request

Freedom of Information Office

Fraser Health

Suite 400, Central City Tower

13450 102 Avenue

Surrey, B.C. V3T 0H1

Dear Freedom of Information Office,

This is a request under the freedom of information act I would like the following:

• Closed investigations on cases of workplace violence committed against nurses since             January of 2018.

In order to avoid photocopying fees, please provide me with electronic copies (PDF) of the aforementioned documents by email, or CD. Should an issue arise, and you are unable to release all of the information requested, please release to me what you can.

If there are any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me via email: nehasidik6@gmail.com or via phone call: 778-712-0102.

Sincerely, 

Neha Sidik.

Explanation for Request

I chose to ask this question as I have seen a lot of public announcements on social media about workplace violence against nurses. This concerned me because I know a lot of nurses, one of them being my own mother. I wanted to know if the claims being made were correct. The person who receives the FOI requests was not listed on the website, as linked here. This is one news article that I had read about the violence.This is another article and video that had surfaced showing the scary statistics regarding the workplace violence.

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