LIMITING SENIORS' RIGHT TO VOTE: BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS
LIMITING SENIORS' RIGHT TO VOTE: BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The 21st century has brought more challenges to the legal space than all the other centuries combined. For this reason, much of the old law school is undergoing several transformations, because the doctrine must imagine answers to problems that the legislator did not think it would ever have to analyze. Among these problems we find the electoral sphere, which is becoming increasingly important for the societies configuration in the decades to come. Here there are several directions for analysis; from them we have chosen – for this paper – one of the most delicate, but also important issues, namely the right of seniors to vote. Although it may seem like an intangible topic, there are biological grounds that bring this topic into discussion and jurists must formulate in advance a minimum set of principles that will operate in this area of electoral processes. Even if many people would like to reject this topic, there is a major problem related to the aging population and the young people regulating interests, relative to the seniors' conceptions and actions. We do not expect everyone who will read this text to agree with all the presented ideas, but the role of science is to bring up topics that are relevant in real life – because the topic is an effective one and not an abstraction.

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