Should Sixteen-Year-Olds Be Allowed To Vote?

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.

There are many concerns that might be brought upon if Congress chooses to lower the voting age in the U.S from 18 to 16. Many could assume that 16-year-olds are not competent enough to make mature and informed decisions. They could either choose to not vote or vote the way their parents tell them to vote. There have been past issues with lowering the voting age in America from 21 to 18. Dissatisfaction among many people could cause a huge conflict if lowering the voting age to 16. Although, we must weigh out the pros and cons of lowering the voting age. This will possible affect the voter turnout in a positive way. For those who vote earlier in life can possible develop a habit of voting in the near future. As of right now, we have a low

At first one may think that 16 and 17 year olds are just focused on dating, having fun, and playing sports. Most would assume that they certainly aren’t mature enough or know enough about politics to vote. However, it is just the opposite, 16 and 17 year olds are in fact very qualified to vote and they care about politics. The voting age should be lowered to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote. 16 and 17 year olds are just as capable as adults in voting, letting them vote would positively affect the voting field in numerous ways, and they are faced many responsibilities similar to adults’.

The current voting age of 18 should not be lower to 16 because youngers have other interest rather than politics, it decrease the percentage of voting participation, and leads to a bad influence from adults in youngers' decisions.Thereby, there would be a negative impact in the elections.

First if we lower the voting age to 16, it will show the world we as a Nation are relying on minors to boost our voting percentages. Which will make our Nation look inferiour to other countries. The maturity level of 16 year olds is not sufficient enough to make those choices. Most 16 year olds cannot get themselves to School let alone make a good choice in voting for the leadership of our Nation. Our Nations minors should concentrate on education first.

There is only 38% of younger population that did vote in 2012. So if there isn’t a difference in age the numbers will still be very small. Letting people a couple years younger vote, won’t help boost the participation, but make the younger voters have even lower voting rates. I believe that younger people of the age of sixteen most likely are too young to understand everything about politics. So if they cannot comprehend the politics of it all then they sure won’t vote if they don’t’ even know. The small percentage of voters is just one fact that proves changing the legal voting age won’t change anything for the participation of voting Americans.

There have recently been discussions about whether or not the voting age should be lowered from 18 to16. Some argue it would increase voter turnout. I do not believe it would. I also feel that 16 years old is too young to make such important decisions.

First, lowering the voting age would decrease voting percentages. A U.S. Census Bureau report shows that only 38% of voters were in the 18-24 age group in 2012. From personal experience, I know that many students and young adults are not interested in voting. Therefore, voting percentages would lower at a fast rate if the age was changed to below 18.

In the article,"Lower the Voting Age" there is a good point made on how "many countries have already done so" in referance to lowering the age for voting to 16 to bring up the percent of participating voters. I strongly disagree with lowering the voting age to 16, at the age of 16 we do not consider people to be mature,independent,or adults. At this age people are learning how to drive and getting their first car, they are not listening to the speeches and debats from the runners for office.

We should maintain the required age to vote at 18, because young people do not get out and vote. In 2012, only 38% 18 - 24 year olds even voted, lowering the voting age down to 16 would only bring our participation percentage even further down. Having a 16 year old vote also raises a lot of questions rather their votes were influenced by older people or just who their friends are going to vote for. I think we should maintain our voting age at 18 because older people are more likely to pay attention to politics and understand what they will need from a candidate.

The voting age should be brought up to twenty-five years. At that age, many people have a steady job and have completed college. Studies have showed

Firstly, younger people should be able to vote because 16 and 17 year olds have opinions too. Their voices deserves to be heard in our community as well as those above 18.

People all over the United States are getting ready to make a decision on who to vote for in the Presidential election this fall. Most people don’t even begin thinking about the voting process until they reach the age of 18, since the legal voting age as of now is 18. However, some believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16, to allow for a more broad selection of voters. While opening up the option to vote for 16 year olds would provide a much larger number of voters, others think that teenagers would not take the election seriously and counting their votes as part of the overall election would be useless and unnecessary. There are many reasons aiding both sides of the argument.

To begin, as an eighteen year old American citizen, I believe that the voting age, being 18, should stay that way. Now that it is 2018, I truly do not think that anyone younger than me or even my age has the common knowledge to vote. I stand on this for three reasons; the age group of teens from 16-18 only really know the bare minimum about our government, no one in this time period will go out of their way to vote, and our voting percentages are already low in the United States. The voting age should stay the same.

To begin with, lowering the voting age would probably decrease the percentage of participation. it also won`t help the percentage go up either. For example, young voters don`t take things like voting seriously. Some of the young voters don`t even care about voting. So there is no point in letting the current voting age be lowered.