I consider that a really bad practice! We hold our right to vote as a honorary responsibility, not something that is forced to us from above!
I have to admit that even as I lived for three years in WA back when I was under the age limit to vote yet, I do not ever remember hearing about that kind of procedure... Maybe it is a newer thing, that was back in the early eighties?


@Wikiwide has a really good point there, this thing must piss off so many people they'd constitute a reasonably large number of people to do something about it!

In finland we have a system where if large enough group of people sign an online petition that some law has to be created/deleted/modified, then the parliament has to process it through the normal law-making procedures. It does not guarantee that it gets passed, there have been both proposals that have been accepted and rejected, but at least processing it is mandatory.