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Pros And Cons Of Lowering The Voting Age

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The Voting Age: To Lower or Not to Lower? The issue of who gets to vote and who does not has always been a struggle in our country. When our country’s constitution was ratified, only white men were allowed to cast a vote in any election. Then, with the passage of the Fifteenth amendment, all men were allowed to vote, except Native Americans, the Nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote, and finally the Twenty-sixth amendment lowered the voting age to 18, and removed all barricades for voting which allowed all citizens to vote. With the instalment of these amendments is when voting became so much easier, and our country’s democracy was fully established. In this day and age, sixteen year olds deserve the right to vote and participate …show more content…

Most young people actually pulled in votes for democratic contestant Bernie Sanders rather than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, according to an article by Thinkprogress, most sixteen and seventeen year olds would have given the vote to Sanders. (thinkprogress.org) with this in mind, I can say from personal experience that I myself was not pulling for President Trump, and neither were many millennials. As sixteen and seventeen year olds, we do not just want our voice to be heard, we demand our voice to be heard by our …show more content…

I personally believe this because this past election I know my friends, peers, and I wanted to get out and vote but could not do so because we were not eighteen, and we were all going to be impacted by the outcome of the election. Instead of the voter turnout decreasing, with sixteen and seventeen year olds voting, it will actually increase which will then in turn cause some changes with who actually is elected and put into

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Letting a new age group vote will help show the diversity that is among them. In the article Shin writes about how “some opponents said that young people barely old enough to drive a car don’t have enough perspective to vote.” This argument is valid because it is true that many young voters don’t have the experience to vote. It can still be undone by the fact that only informed individuals are willing to vote at such a young age. This is done through the fact that many young voters were prompted by this new right, to go out and seek the information needed to be well informed

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Is it really sixteen year-olds that want the right to vote or is it the people who could easily get their votes and make an election an easier win. Mistrett also states,” 16-year-olds probably are not voting ready yet-that

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A person should vote because they believe it is their duty as a citizen and because they belief in the process. Many people point out that elders tend to vote more often but I respectfully point out that older people have a habit of dying off at a fairly regular basis. Disenfranchisement with the establishment can be a life long mindset, indeed it may be that the system of government is creating groups of people who believe that voting is a waste of time, an idea that may be planted at a younger age. Once upon a time you had to be older than 18 to vote, many debates were held over the pros and cons but eventually the age restriction was lowered and it has had little ill effect on our society. I believe that lowering it further, to an age where many teenagers are considering their future and how best to prepare for it would have a dual benefit of forcing American youths to focus on planning their lives and building rapport with our system of

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If the age was lowered to vote, i think many kids would take advantage of their

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Although I don’t believe being absent from the polls is the way to solve this, it is understandable why a young person in America could feel as though their vote doesn’t matter. All in all, I believe wattenberg misses the mark on the true and nearly obvious reason the youth is not voting: we've thrown in the towel on the American political

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The twenty-sixth amendment was the amendment that lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18. This was a huge step for American people and the country to allow more people to vote and voice opinion. In this day of age many people have strong opinions and feeling towards how the country should be run. Unfortunately some of the people that complain and have opinions about politics did not vote for politicians to represent them. All citizens have not always had the right to vote and people that refuse to vote now-a-days do not have the right to complain about what decisions politicians make.

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Young Americans are taking opportunities offered to them in order to have a full insight in politics and involvement, the only restriction they have is not being able to vote.

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I think the age 16 is too young to vote. You have hardly had time to learn what the real world is all about. I feel strongly that increasing the percentage of voters should be our goal. The low participation of younger voters shows a lack of civic responsibility. However I feel it is neccesary to keep other solutions in mind.

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Most of the teens are already very excited to vote because they know their vote4s may can change the world. Now a days the children sixteen and under know more about the politics than I know and I am nineteen now. Most of them feel as if they are still babies because they are not able to vote. Right or wrong every vote counts.

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However the teenagers wishing to vote do not have enough quality education to make the best decision for their interest. Recent studies in the Chicago Tribune show that teens ages 14 to 18 lacked a developed mindset that is necessary to make decisions based on facts (The Pros and Cons of Lowering the Voting Age). American childhood is not declared to be changed into adulthood until they complete a full education and are eligible for military services at age 18 (Youth Must Study Citizenship Before Voting). The development and maturity of youth and adolescence is not strong enough before the age of 18 to be beneficial for decision

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There are various explanations as to why young adults have one of the lowest voter turnout percentages. Young voters feel as though that they don’t have much at stake in America than older people. Older people need to know how their children’s school’s are going to run, health insurance, hospitals, their homes, and, of course, their careers. An alternative explanation is that young voters feel that there is no one worth voting for or that they are not well informed about the campaign.

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There still are many 16 year olds who would vote without thinking or using one consious. Many of Americas youth are not taught about getting into politics or this is going to be way of life for them. Other countries such as Belgium (95%) turnout and Austria at the top. Voting is

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This means that the voting age is not the only factor in the voting turnout, and so changing the voting age would not definitively increase the civic participation of teens or the percentage of voters in the United States. However, this does not mean that lowering the voting age would not have any impact on these factors, either. As seen in recent years, the number of teen activists, teen civic participation and political engagement has been on the rise. This means that lowering the voting age is about as likely to have an impact on voter turnout in the United States as it is to have no effect or a limited

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As of right now, the majority of eligible-voters that actually vote are in the age group between about 50-65. What we need to do is increase the participation from young voters. In order to do this, we need to appeal to that age group. We can do this by allowing to vote electronically. It is said that this may increase our voter turnout tremendously.

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