Understood your context and my musing was based on thoughts derived from that fact.Duffy said:In the context that at 17 you can serve in the military but you can’t vote. Other people who can serve in the military but can’t vote...Funny you brought up the voting at 17.
Non-citizens
Felons
As for illegal voting, my personal opinion is that if there is illegal voting going on it isn’t done by a bunch of ineligible people. That’s too hard. It would be done by a few individuals who just stuff ballot boxes or hack voting machines.
That and people casting multiple votes under different names. I vote absentee and I can register to vote without showing any proof of ID. So theoretically my three cats, 13 year old son, two wives and my surfboard that I named “Billy” could cast the absentee ballots that are theoretically sent to me.
With absentee ballot, I guess you could scam that to a point but not exhaustively so. In person, you need both and address on the rolls. How many times has real voter shown up and been denied?