Children's Commissioner and Former Youth Court judge Andrew Becroft has come up with the idea that 16 and 17-year-olds should be able to vote.
It's easy to dismiss this, and ultimately I think I probably do.
But before I got to that conclusion I looked of course to my own kids. As most parents would have worked out, of the collection of 16- and 17-year-olds we have, how many should be voting at this age?
And the answer is one, maybe two. We have four kids in the rough age group. One is 18 so has already voted, but what sort of vote was it? Well, it involved us explaining some of the aspects of MMP to him as we literally walked to the polling booth.
So was that a well-informed educated vote? But then that is the point, isn't it? How many votes are educated votes? How many are put in by people who care, and are passionate, and have thought through where their support lies and why?