If you’re old enough to drive, Nancy Pelosi thinks you’re old enough to vote

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had the chance to speak to a room full of millennials last week, and she used the opportunity as a call to “strengthen” the Voting Rights Act — in part by lowering the voting age.

Speaking at a Generation Progress event (Generation Progress is the cub farm for the Center for American Progress), Pelosi encouraged young people to begin thinking about the idea of lowering the voting age to “16 or 17″ so that their high school can register them to vote as a matter of course.

From a transcript posted to Pelosi’s congressional page:

To achieve what we want to do for the middle class, for kids in school, for immigration reform, we must change our politics. We must reduce the role of money in politics. We must dare; we must dare to do that. And so we have a dare — DARE: disclose where is this money is coming from, this dark money; amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United — let’s get out there and mobilize and do it.

[Applause]

Reform our campaign system to empower small donors; and empower voters with a renewed and strengthened Voting Rights Act, removing obstacles of participation. I am all for — I’d love to hear your thoughts on it; I know you’ll let me know — for lowering the voting age to high school age, whether that’s 16 or 17 or…

[Applause]

Because when kids are in school, they’re so interested, they’re so engaged. And we’d like them to be at least registered before they leave — hopefully, to register.

Pelosi went on to emphasize the significance to voters of making informed and conscientious decisions. “[T]he American people have to know what the choices are in the election and the impact of those decisions at the polls,” she said.

She also called for a law that would “reduce the role of money in politics” by overturning the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling.

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