US senate lowers voting age to 18 On March 10th, 1971, U.S senate lowered the voting age to 18. Richard Nixon was the senate who made a law on lowering the voting age to 18. He also made the 26th amendment stating, “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.” Georgia was the first state to lower their voting age. A lot of teenagers started voting after this change was made.
Before the current race for President of the United States, millennials had little reason to be involved with politics or vote. Asma Khalid states that “In fact, millennials continue to have the lowest voter turnout of any age group. Only about 46 percent [of millennials] voted in the last presidential election…” Khalid also points out that another reason millennial voting was so low in the previous elections was because millennials were not of age to vote. Rachel Gossen says that “By 2016, 93 million millennials will be of voting age and 81 million will be eligible voters,
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
Nowadays, the young generations are not aware of how important it is to go out to a poll and vote. Without the votes, voter turnout will continue to decline. The citizens should be more aware of what is going on, fight for their beliefs and issues, and make a
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
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
The first being that requiring younger people to vote would flood the polls with millions of uninformed voters. The second reason is that most young voters don’t care or know enough
I need everyone’s attention please if you are between the ages of 18 to 100 years old. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM! You are registered to vote, but you don’t. What is that all about? Come on, do you know that young people are less likely to vote than older people.
The debate regarding whether the voting age should be lowered or remain the same has become yet another issue of partisan politics. Those in favor of lowering the voting age tend to lean to the left while those in favor of keeping our current voting age tend to lean to the right. Both sides have valid points to be made no doubt. However, the majority of politicians against lowering the voting age belong to the party of voter suppression, the GOP. For what it's worth, I will say that I'm glad I wasn't able to vote when I was sixteen.
Voting is important in every country and there should be boundaries to who can vote. Although, the boundaries should be carefully thought out and consider everyone who may apply. Anyone old enough to risk their life for their country is old enough to vote for their
These are heavy obligations with their own challenges that adults have no problem taking on, so why shouldn’t the younger citizens that are undertaking these responsibilities be able to vote? If they are thought to be responsible enough
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.
So many young adults do not vote or even know how to register to vote. I am not even sure that many teenagers even think about registering to vote when they turn 18. My son signed up for selective service as soon as he turned 18. They asked him if he wanted to fill out the voter registration too. He is very political and of course said, “Yes.”
We need votes from people that understand everything about the election. There is no contest in voting ranks with other countries. I feel there is no trust in letting 16 year olds vote when they have no interest or knowledge to make a smart
The age of electoral majority should be lowered to sixteen because voting is a fundamental human right for a democratic society, and future belong to the young generation, they should take part in making any decision that may cause a change in their life. If teenagers are allowed to vote, they will care more and know more about politics, which may eventually benefit the whole society by improving the quality of life of every person living in that
