16- and 17-year olds are NOT "...informed, and engaged voters" but rather easily manipulated. This is insane and nothing more than a way to stuff the ballot box.
Unbelievable!

Don't you just loooooooove the smell of panic coming from the -45 cult (who are easily the most easily manipulated population out there) when attempts are made to get more people interested in the vote?

Let's register babies at birth so they can vote once discharged from the hospital.

People ... the article says PRE-registered ... not registered. When, and only when, the kids turn 18, they will become eligible to vote. I registered to vote at 18 and have voted ever since as is my right as a citizen. These kids are no different.

Wait...you expect the trolls to *read* the articles they rip on-line???

I think this is so cool. I remember the last election that I was too young for. And I really wished I was old enough. I registered as soon as I was eligible, and have proudly voted in every election since. Don't insult these young people's intelligence.

@Wrong -

Age has little to do with education. Quite a few adults that I know vote only down party lines, or only based on titles for measures, which is why the fights over how to title measures and propositions are so vicious. I hope these kids can educate themselves and vote based on their own thoughts, not simply repeating the desires of their teachers or parents.

These kids are now on their way to political disillusionment like the rest of us. Like the saying goes, "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it".

Everyone knows that FOX NEWS viewers are primarily old white men. Teenagers in California are the exact opposite demographic. You know what that means.

They won’t show up. Unless we designate special voting booths as safe spaces where their eyes will be protected from ideas they don’t like.

Hey Boomers, has an idea ever formed in your heads that didn't just get broadcasted to you via Fox News? Haven't you all done enough damage to our country? Maybe you could stay home for a couple elections and let the rest of us try to fix the garbage pile you've left behind.

@resident: "primarily old white men". Hmmm, racists, sexist much?

I didn’t even know this was an option until my son filled out the pre-registration forms and rode his bike to mailbox to send them off. Teens can also pre-register on the DMV driver’s permit form. There is a very powerful voting block coming up and they are tuned in to what is going on.

200,000 out of about 570,000 16-17 year-olds in California. Even if 70,000 are "undocumented" and cannot register to vote, that would place "pre-registration" at only 40%. For all California adult citizens, about two-thirds are registered. Registration remains far too low - given what is at stake. But don't worry, be happy. Watch footballers maul one another with a beer, wine, cocktail, grass or some other intoxicant and pretend it just does not matter. And all hail President Putin

Wrong has it RIGHT!

The Dems hope to manipulate the young minds into socialism based on race, gender, and wealth and leave out the fact that most, if not all the "old white men" worked their minds and bodies to provide for their families and obtain such wealth. Not depend on government redistribution programs.

Typical socialistic tactics pitting one race against another, one class against another, and one gender against the another.

Wow...so many words. SO very little sense.

Think it's time to turn off Fox "News" and ultra-right-wing AM talk radio, don't you think?

These are eligible American citizens you are talking about with as much right to vote as anyone... Nope, more since they registered. These various posters cannot deny that. As far as their manipulation and inability to decide for themselves - have you ever met an American teenager?

@ Gary - As @Resident said "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it".

Better to sit back, don't worry, be happy. Watch footballers maul one another with a beer, wine, cocktail, grass or some other intoxicant - because your vote doesn't matter. It's one big corrupt deep state running the country/world and all the in-fighting changes nothing.

"It's one big corrupt deep state running the country/world..."

Just because -45 says it, doesn't make it so.

It's high time you recognize that you're being played by Steve Bannon et al.

Don't forget to join Donald Trump in hailing Vladimir Putin. The schools better start teaching Russian. Non-Russian speakers will have trouble finding work in Trump's new America.