That’s more technically problematic; how could non-human animals vote in the existing kinds of elections? Human intermediaries would have to decide what was best for the non-humans they represented. Different human political factions would support different positions as being best for the non-humans, and fight over that.
(This of course doesn’t apply to future possible non-human sentients like AI, uploads, uplifted animals, modified humans, etc.)
Or non-humans.
That’s more technically problematic; how could non-human animals vote in the existing kinds of elections? Human intermediaries would have to decide what was best for the non-humans they represented. Different human political factions would support different positions as being best for the non-humans, and fight over that.
(This of course doesn’t apply to future possible non-human sentients like AI, uploads, uplifted animals, modified humans, etc.)
Lead them into the voting booth, see which lever they press.
The same is true of some minors. (Though, of course, not all.)