Voting Age Analysis

In the article “Takoma Park 16-year-old Savors his History-Making Moment at the Polls,” written by Annys Shin, the author focuses on whether or not lowering the voting age from 18 is a good idea towards politics, by looking at the benefits and the disadvantages of both sides. In 2013, the city of Takoma Park was the first to lower the voting age to 16 and change the 26th Amendment in their municipal. Ben Miller and other 16- and 17-year-olds were capable of stepping into a booth and casting their vote at the Takoma Park Community Center. Allowing this age group to cast a vote will lead more teenagers to vote than their older peers, it will get them into the habit of voting for the rest of their lives, and it will also increase their personal

I belive that before se set out to make major changes to the voter laws, such as changing the voter age requirment, new programes should be rolled out in an attempt to increase younger voter turnout fist. For example, use of social media to target younger voters. More political ingagment with a younger age group would help build on itself as polititions engage and take up issues that matter to yonger voters, thus incressing young voter turnout, and thus raising the value of younger voters to polititions seeking ideas and votes to be elected or re-elected. a prime example is how effective it was for Bill Clintons campaign during the 90's when he appealed to young voters by going on "MTV."

One of our most, and many would argue, the most valuable rights as citizens of a democracy is our right to vote. It gives us a voice in the direction our elected representatives steer our country. Unfortunately, historically young voters are underrepresented due to their low voting turnout. This came as a shock to me being a young voter myself. Growing up in California I was excited about getting the chance to vote, to have a voice as it were. However, this is clearly not the case for all potential young voters.

The opponents of this campaign argue that these teenagers are not old enough to vote and they will not make informed decisions. Counter augments follow that lowering

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).

Voting has been a popular topic on my social media, specifically for young adult’s ages between 18 and 21. The discussions are mainly about whether or not voting is really something they should do. I’ve seen a few people comment saying that now that they are of age, they will vote. Sadly, most of the people like to just think about it as something “dumb”, “unnecessary”, and “waste of time”. I highly disagree. I like to think of it as people who just speak without thinking. The majority of those young adults like to share posts about politics and they always seem to state their opinion about how they do not like what a certain candidate running for office has said, or that they are not ok with what that candidate will do if they become president. I have also seen posts about how they think that them not voting won’t make a difference in voting percentage, but little do they know, they’re not the only ones with that

“Is Voting For Young People?”, written by Martin P. Wattenberg is based on his views on surveys and research that has been done on why there is such low turnout for voting when it comes to young people . His major point is that he wants to get across the problem of low youth turnout and it is by no means just an American one. It seems like this problem is a trend in most of the Western democracies and America is not alone when it comes to getting young people to the polls. In previous times this was not the case when it came to young people not knowing about politics and not voting. In 1970, there were actually no relationship at all between age and political knowledge (87). Moreover, older people used to be the least likely to follow major

Some may argue that the result of the voting is representing the product of free opinion, and the result might be ruined if teenagers get involved. They believe that the free opinion may be impacted by the young people’s lack of competence for the vote. Hence they may be swayed to vote for a candidate in an undemocratic way. This has led to the opponents in the Western Democratic States to transform the voting rights of the youths from a human rights concern to a social policy concern. I disagree with this view, because the young people have a constitutional right to go to the ballot and cast their votes regardless of their political knowledge or competence, as recent research by Gadda, (2008) has declared, an individual having sixteen years and above is rational, responsible, adequately mature, civically ready to practice free, independent, and informed vote.

Since the 1960’s voting rights have been a problem for minorities. The law for voting has kept minorities from having any say in who is elected into political offices. Therefore, there should not be any restriction and/or new laws that hinder minorities, young voters, newly registered from voting.

There are several reasons as to why I chose this topic, because the young voices of America matter now a days. Young adults don’t realize that we are the next generation for the United States. Throughout my survey I came to the conclusion that there are a lot of young adults that aren’t registered to vote but they have a political view whether it be Democrat, Republican, or a Liberal. But they don’t see the purpose of being registered to vote because they aren’t really informed on what is going on in the society because it isn’t interesting for them at the time but what they fail to come to realize is that when they began to retire at an older age they won’t have the same benefits as the older generation do today. During my Research I found a lot of adults here in Florida aren’t registered and if they are they aren’t voting.

A step that our political system could take to motivate young people is to encourage schools to teach them the importance of voting! Our schools spend so much time talking about the specifics and laws, but I was barely taught the importance of voting. It was just something that I was expected to know. Many people, including me, have parents to give encouragement. Others do not. I think it is important for schools to really discuss the current issues and get young kids, in high school, to discuss what they think!

Although all Americans have the right over the age of 18, not all citizens vote because of four common, yet relevant reasons. One’s educational level, age, level of income, and prestige of occupation determine if they will vote or not.

Rather than how many votes a candidate receive in the ballot, the president is decided by the number of electoral votes. Every state has a number of electors who have one vote each. The number of electors per state is generally proportional to its size and population. So, the more districts there are in a state, the more representatives there are in that state the more electors they get in the election. For example, California has 55 electoral votes while there are seven smaller states with only three electoral votes each. Electors are expected to vote for the candidate who wins the majority of a state’s popular vote. In 48 states there is a winner takes all methods with electors votes awarded as a single bloc. For example, if over 50% of people vote democrat in Florida the democrats receive all 29 of the state’s electoral votes. Main and Nebraska are the exceptions, dishing their votes out proportionally. In the event of a tie the House of Representatives and the senate vote for the president and vice president.

Do you wonder what it would be like to vote while still in high school? Some of us ask whats the

Questioning to raise or lower the voting age limit has drastically altered the mindset of citizens participating in voting elections of today. According to current research and polling, we examine choices made by sixty citizens; twenty male and twenty female under the age of twenty-one, and a mixture of males and females over the age of thirty.