Votes for nappies?

Here is a novel proposal from Germany via Slate

More than 40 German deputies on Tuesday proposed that the voting age be lowered to birth to give children a say in the country’s political future, the parliamentary press service said.
“At the moment some 14 million Germans are denied the right to vote, purely because of their age,” the 46 members of parliament said in a discussion document tabled in the legislature

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But it gets better

They proposed that parents be allowed to vote for their offspring, until such time that the children felt they were ready to cast ballots themselves.

In case you were wondering,the current voting age is in fact 18