Those under 21 cannot vote in Singapore elections. So you can hold a rifle, shoot someone and defend the country but you cannot vote.
However, new citizens who, at a high percentage, are older "deemed" foreign talents who took up citizenship in the last 2-3 years can vote. Hmm..how about those University or Poly students who have stayed and studied here for past 20 years, how do you compare their stakes in our country vs these new "of age" citizens?
They don't even need to defend our country when it comes to war, so what's their stake in our country as they stayed here less with less kinship or friendships?
How would they vote? And why are we "old" citizens giving them a chance to decide how and who manages our tiny island. This is looking even more absurd with MM Lee's suggestion to have some "classes" of citizens have 2 votes over others 1.
Suggestions since lately gahmen enjoys updating the voting registrar list:
1) Citizens between 18 and under 21 serving National Service (NS) should be allowed to vote.
2) New citizens who have stayed less than 5 years and does not have children born here and do not serve any form of volunteering or NS should not be allowed to vote.
If possible, I hope this applies to critics of either either new citizens or PRs origin, who write in to newspapers or posts online about how marginalised or wonderful Sillypore is. Contribution through economic means hardly qualify as nation building IMHO.
