Voting Age

Now you may be wondering what the motives would be to change the voting age, well let’s take a look. 1. The problem here is there are many individuals who believe the Twenty-Sixth Amendment’s power is archaic and the standard age of eighteen to vote is not working for this country. A. On March 2, of 2018,

The voting age should be increased to 19 or 21 years of age. Most 18 year olds have just graduated or are still in highschool, so many of them are immature,and lack life experience. In addition, many 18 year olds do not have a plan(s) after high school, so if they can’t make a decision about their future what makes people think that they can make an informed decision about the future of the country. However, there are some states like Ohio that are allowing seventeen year olds to vote in primaries.

British dramatist Shakespeare once said that there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Through the ages, controversies about voting age have not quieted down, and there are more and more different opinions about voting age like it should increase to 21, or it should decrease to 17 or 16, even 13. Like a coin has two sides, each opinion has both advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, I prefer the voting age to be 18 in the United States. Teenagers who are 18 years old are independent enough to make their own decisions, and they should have the vote right as other adults do.

In the first article that wants the voting age to stay at 18 says that younger people wouldn’t

It listed in the article that only 38% of people between the ages of 18-24 voted in 2012, with a total percentage of people who voted being 62%.That being said if you lower the voting age to 16 the percentage of voters is going to decrease.

The current minimum age for voting, 18 years old, isn't a very good time to start allowing people to vote. When people turn 18, they have plenty of things to worry about. They're (hopefully) moving out of their childhood homes, and they're (probably) going into college. How does that affect their abilities to vote? Well, people are less likely to vote when their lives are disrupted. Eighteen-year-olds have a lot of things

When just turning 18 the citizens should take advantage of having the opportunity to vote. In

The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1969 during the Vietnam war, because it was only fair to those aged 18 - 20 dying for their country have a say in how the country is run. Therefore if 16 year olds are now capable of

African-Americans were once not allowed to vote, and neither were women. Voters also had to be of greater age, and had to take a literacy tests. As the years progressed, the voting age was then lowered to 18 year olds through the 26th amendment, for all American citizens. However, citizens of Takoma have come to the realization, that the voting age should be even lower in order for society to have change. Although voting is a national privilege, 16 and 17-year old citizens should be allowed to vote as this will allow them to be more connected to the community, it will establish a culture of voting with higher turnout, and allow these individuals to be politically

In the article, “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” by Annys Shin, many teens who are 16-17 years old can now vote during the election. The decision was made by the Takoma City Council that in Montgomery County Community, they are the first ones in the nation to lower their voting age from 18-16 years old. A group of 350 students from Montgomery Blair High School were granted the right to vote in elections and one of the student who got the right to vote, Ben Miller had said, “ It’s a valuable Privilege,” and he means that it is a great advantage that many 16-17 years old can now vote. Many young adults who are the age of 18 are most likely not a good age to vote because many of them are planning to leave their childhood homes. And they can lack of discipline and causes them not to vote.

In the article “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” author Annys Shin explains how the Takoma City Council made the Montgomery County community the nation's first to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. Ms. Shin explains how Councilmember Tim Male asked, “How do we get more people vote” proposing that in a report seen from Denmark it suggest that younger teenagers are more likely to vote rather than their older peers. The director of the national reform organization Rob Richie stated, “ Eighteen year-olds, it turns out, are not a very good first voting age group.” They believe that by expanding the franchise to 16 and 17 year-olds it will get them into the habit of voting for the rest of their lives. However I do not believe that lowering the voting age will make a difference in the voter outcome.

The 26th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1971, giving eight-teen year olds the right to vote. Forty four years later the voting age still remains set at eight-teen but is it time for a change?

We should be focusing more on voter participation rather than the percentage of population registered to vote. There are many factors that would increase voter turnout in America, but lowering the voting age is not one of them. In 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that only 38% of voters age 18-24 actually voted.

They state that we need to balance the overwhelming older voters with younger perspectives and to do so is to make it so voting is more available at a younger age. I agree that we do need to balance out the younger and older voting demographics, however, lowering the age to vote to 16 years old will not solve this. We can already see in the United States' case that younger voters will not vote and are simply uninterested in doing so, so why should we lower the age so more uninterested teenagers have the unlikely possiblity of voting. I think we shouldn't focus on making voting more available to increase voter participation, but instead we should make it so they want to vote more

dominance of religion in states changed women’s views from conservative to more liberal, because states that lowered their religious values faster saw changes in women’s voting behaviors move to the left side much faster than those that took longer (Emmenegger and Manow, 2014).