Travis Barker’s 18-year-old daughter Alabama feels she’s not “educated” enough to vote: “I don’t have to vote”

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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker‘s 18-year-old daughter, Alabama, has shared that she doesn’t want to vote in the upcoming US Election.Alabama, who is now of legal voting age, revealed her stance on voting during a livestream on social media, telling followers she didn’t feel “educated” enough.“Not voting isn’t crazy in my opinion at all, because if I don’t feel like I have the exact education for what I’m voting for, how is it right to vote something I’m not completely educated on?” she told followers, per Billboard. “I could educate myself, but why would I do that if I genuinely don’t care?

I’m just honest.”She continued: “I don’t care to vote if I don’t know exactly what’s going on. I don’t think that’s wrong, and I completely stand on that and stand by it because, first of all, I just turned 18 and I never voted before.

I’ve never voted. If I don’t want to vote, I don’t have to vote. If I don’t want to be in politics, I don’t have to be in politics.”Alabama went on to say that, despite having no plans to vote, she does “have an opinion on what I feel is right because of what I’ve been seeing,” adding: “One of the [candidates] is just a mess.” However, she didn’t reveal if she was referring to Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, or Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.Artists like Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, P!nk, Bon Iver, Quavo, Bruce Springsteen, Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo and more have also come out in support of Harris ahead of this November’s election.Elsewhere, Julian Casablancas recently shared that he feels no strong affinity to either party in the upcoming US election, referring to the candidates in an interview with NME as “both sides of the same corporate.