The proposal is often endorsed by left-wing thinkers

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One of the amusing features of this week’s U.S. election turbulence has been sudden media scrutiny of Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance, a former author and pundit newly named as Donald Trump’s running mate. Readers will know I’m a sadistic student of electoral reform crusades, and in 2021 Vance advocated for one of the myriad of utopian ideas that has never quite reached prime time: parents should be given extra votes that they can exercise on behalf of their minor children.

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“When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power, you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have kids,” Vance said. “if you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.”

With Vance completing the leap from windbag intellectual to national political figure, newspapers like the Washington Post are beginning to report on his election-reform spitballing in the usual “gotcha” spirit, and........

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