Are these the voters or the candidates?
Remember this (https://leeduigon.com/2021/03/24/the-wrong-kid-on-the-school-board/)? I re-cast it as a satire, but it’s based on real-world foolishness indulged in by the Howard County, MD, Board of Education.
They proposed to allow a child, aged 11-16, to serve on the school board and vote with the adult members. All the kids in the district would be eligible to vote for (I don’t know what to call it) this special representative (best I could do!).
The next step, OF COURSE!, would be for the adults to pressure the child on the board first one way, then the other.Wow–wait’ll there’s a tie vote and the kid has to cast the tie-breaker. His family will have to emigrate.
Remember when you thought “government” was performed by intelligent, mature, and rational adults? [Dissolve into gusts of sardonic hilarity]