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    Yes I think that the current voting age of 18 should mantain. The voting age of 18 should maintain because of many reasons. I believe the younger group of people do not put a lot of importance when it comes to politics. Older people tend to worry more about our rights and want the best for their country. Besides according to to the U.S. Census Bureau report, only 38 percent of voters in the 18 - 24 age group voted in 2012. That shows how low the percentage for that age group even bother to vote.

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    Reduce Voting Age to 16 Essay

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    The legal voting age should be reduced to 16 instead of 18. We can work, we can join the army, we can even get married at the age of 16, but we can't vote at 16? We can leave school, we can move out of the family house and live on our own independently if we wanted to at the age of 16, but yet we are considered immature and not responsible enough to vote at 16, why? Why is electing a political representative much more important than authorising a 16 year old to go fight and potentially die for

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    Recently, citizens have urged politicians to lower the voting age to 16. I do not agree with the people calling for the decrease in age, to make an effort to vote. Statistics prove that young voters percential in voting turned out low. I believe the focus should be on maintaining and improving the convienience of voting for the high percetage of active voters. I know from experience, lowering the age to vote may spark an interest in some young citizens, but not many. First, let's compare

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    lowering the voting age would be harmful to voters because 16 year olds are typically not worried about politics . Changing the voting age by any amount would not be fair to the percentage of younger voters that are active from ages 18- 24 ( The u.s cencus bureau reported 36% of them voted in 2012 ) , But there would be a even less percentage of active voters if the voting age was reduces by 2 years from 18 to 16 . Im betting maybe a third of 16 year olds would be interested in voting and presidential

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    reasons why the voting age should be lowered to 16. Critics would say that people not old enough will not make the best decisions, well in this essay it will say all of the reasons why the voting age should be lowered to 16. The reasons are they don’t want to, voting is unfair, and they can teach about voting in high school. The voting age should be put down to sixteen, because of what this cite says “...50% in 1972 to 38%...” this is the rate of people under twenty-five voting. People who graduate

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    lowering the voting age. today i will share with you why this should not occur. my three reasons include that lowering the voting age would cause a higher rate of voters who dont vote, voting wont be taken seriously, and that there are other ways to improve the percent of voters who participate. first, i will be sharing with you how lowering the voting age could cause more harm than good by increasing the number of citizens who dont participate in voting. only 38% of voters ages 18-24 actually

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    Did you know over 54% of Americans voted yes to voting ages being changed down to 13? Would you be able to fathom walking into your local voting station, and seeing a mother signing her son into the polls for him to be able to vote. What would you think? I know what I would think, why is this borderline premature child voting? who let this child vote? Like come on this kid doesn’t even know who the candidates are? Do you think the voting age should be lowered? In this argumentative paper I will

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    Should Lower the Voting Age to 16.” by Lawrence Stein-berg, the author suggests that teenagers at the age of sixteen and up should have the same voting rights as legal adults. Steinberg’s main argument is that teenagers pos-sess “cold cognitive abilities” which allow adolescents to “gather and process infor-mation, weigh pros and cons, reason logically with facts and take time before making a decision.” Steinberg also addresses that humans generally do not fully develop until the age of 22 and do not

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    I believe the voting age should stay at 18. There are other ways to increase the voting turnout other than lowering the age of voting. however, if the age was dropped the voting population would drop even more.the ways to increase the voting populations are by allowing people to vote from home, mobile booths, and polliticians could pass laws to make voting happen. First of all, I would like to start with if the age of voting was reduced from 18 to 16 this would be terrible for all election

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    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

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