On the one hand, I think that it’s a stupid idea being pushed for ideological reasons meant to favor the Religious Right. On the other hand though, as a parent, it does make a certain amount of sense to me that parents should potentially get more votes than non-parents. Not because we’re better or more deserving than non-parents or anything, but because we have more “skin in the game”, we’ve got more at stake, we’ve got our children’s future lives to consider. Parents deal with school funding issues that might be decided by a bunch of voters who decide, “I don’t have any kids, why should my tax dollars go towards school funding?” Being responsible for the livelihood of other people maybe should give you additional votes for people who can’t vote themselves.
Still though, it does go against the idea of one person, one vote and opens the door for all sorts of other multipliers to muddy the voting process. Will veterans then get extra votes because they’ve done more for the country? Do other groups stand to gain extra votes for whatever reason? It has all sorts of potential for getting abused if any exception is made for anyone, so ultimately probably shouldn’t be a thing.
I hate Vance and want Trump & him to crash and burn hard this election, BUT… I’m not sure I totally hate this idea.