The Pros And Cons Of Lowering The Voting Age

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Many have argued about whether or not the voting age of 18 should be maintained or lowered. To be fair, some of the people opposing to the change in the voting age are concerned about how mature and interested a 16 year old can be to take such a responsibility like voting and thats understandable. However, in my opinion lowering the voting age to 16 wouldn't cause a drastic change in the amount of people not voting. If anything it can actually help bring up the percentage of younger individuals who vote when having the influence to do so. Allowing voters in the age group of 16-18 a right to vote will cause a positive influence in young voters. For example, in 1950 there was only a 13% of elderly voters. Slowly this percentage has come