Elected lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are attempting to give 16- and 17-year-old kids the right to vote in both local and federal elections.

How about that? Just in time for the midterms!

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“Age is just a number,” said civil rights attorney Leo Terrell, a guest on “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham felt otherwise, citing scientific evidence that age is quite a bit more than “just a number,” particularly when it comes to the physiological capability of young people to engage in the rational decision-making necessary for responsibly exercising the civic duty to vote.

“The pre-frontal cortex of the teenage brain is not developed yet,” said Ingraham, referencing the part of the brain responsible for rational and higher-level thinking. Further, teens’ actions are guided more by the amygdala (which governs emotional and instinctual reactions) than by the pre-frontal cortex (governs reasoning and guards against impulsivity).

“This is just liberal propaganda,” said former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, also a guest on the program Tuesday night. “The Democrats are losing voters every day. When you can’t import illegal immigrants to vote in your elections, that’s what happens.”

D.C. lawmakers’ ostensible reason for allowing kids to vote was summed up by Councilman Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who introduced the legislation. “By enfranchising 16- and 17-year-olds, we can bring our young people directly into the political process, lift their voices, and … create engaged, lifelong voters,” he told Vice.

Allen argued that 16- and 17-year-old D.C. kids are victims of taxation without representation. He was apparently inspired by the children who fell victim to the Left’s leveraging of them as pawns in the recent March for our Lives events across the country.

So what’s the real reason that seven of the 13 District Council members are advocating for this nonsense?

“The Left is losing the war of ideas. We know that. The crackdown on immigration is making it harder to import new voters, so why not just pad the voter rolls with impressionable children?” suggested Ingraham.

During the school year, those under age 17 can’t stay out past 11 p.m. on school nights.

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“They’re worried Trump is going to get re-elected,” she added.

A full, unrestricted driver’s license isn’t available to kids in the District of Columbia until they are 18. And until they’re 18, they need to have parental permission if they want to get a tattoo. During the school year, those under age 17 can’t stay out past 11 p.m. on school nights, or they could be in violation of D.C.’s curfew, putting them or their parents in legal jeopardy. They can’t even register to own a handgun until they’re 21. They don’t go to war.

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Yet they would be responsible enough to cast a vote that could change all those laws currently in place to “protect” them from their own obvious developmental vulnerabilities? How does that make a lick of sense?

How about we give these teenagers a couple of years to mature — emotionally and physiologically — before they start casting votes that could change the course of a nation?

Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.