Should 16 Year Olds Be Allowed To Vote Essay

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    Voting Age To 18

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    believe that we should keep the voting age at 18. At the age of 18 you are an adult and you are capable of keeping up with politics and making your own decision on who you beleive would be the best president. Changing the voting age to 16 is dangerous becuase 16 year olds are easily influenced I believe if we gave 16 year olds the chance to vote they would not understand the importance of voting like an adult would. I know personally that the younger age range does not care to vote at all. When

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    Many teens may argue that they should have a say and opinion in elections, but others believe they are too young and don’t know a thing about politics.The usual voting age is 18 years old, which is still counts as a teenager but by that age, it is considered to be legal. They are more mature and have a little more knowledge about what is happening around the world. In the article, “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history making moment at the polls” written by Annys Shin states that the 26th Amendment

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    Teenagers are the future of the world and should be given the right to make decisions that will impact their futures too. Lowering the voting age will be a great benefit to the United States and 16-year olds have a better understanding about the system than 18-year olds due to the education they are receiving making them a little more mature to make the right decision to vote. The benefits of reducing the age to 16 are the advantages teens get of learning how the voting system functions at an early

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    The voting age has been a controversial topic for years now. In Indiana, voters have to be 18 before the next General, Municipal, or Special Education to register to vote. Other states allow you to be younger than 18 when you register as long as the voter is 18 when they are actually voting (“Voter Registration Age Requirements by State.”). However, whether or not the voting age should remain 18 or go down to 16 has been debated and still remains questionable. Although this is quite the controversial

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    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

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    seventeen years olds citizens should vote just so that the teens can go in the habit of voting at an early age and of to show them how the voting system actually works. Teenagers don’t even have the responsibility to clean up for themselves and are being peer pressured by their so called friends to do something dangerous. That doesn’t sound like people that can handle the idea of being able to change the world for the best or the worst with their vote. If even the eighteens years olds that are legal

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    Democracy vote and get involved in the government. Consent of the Governed helps Americans actually vote. The rule of law can get the president impeached. The responsibilities of citizenship can be dating public issues. Citizens rights is being able to express their own opinion. These principles give all American citizens an opportunity to vote. Voting practices were undemocratic in the countries past. Before the revolution only people who owned property or paid taxes were able to vote and that violated

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    Suffrage in america is not a privilege, but a right that all Americans are granted when they are old enough to maturely handle this important action. However just as the right to bear arms, children including teens should not be allowed to take on such power due to the fact that it can not only impact the outcome of their own lives & futures, but those of others in this country. I myself am a teenager in America who is moderately versed in politics, civil liberties, economics, and the government

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    The Election Of The Uk

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    people to vote electronically in order to discourage fraud but shouldn 't change much else other than that. I will also evaluate the other viewpoints and why I do not believe these viewpoints are the key to making UK elections fairer and more just . As of now, the UK uses the first-past-the-post system in their elections; this means that the candidate with the most votes becomes the MP for their constituency. One sensible adjustment that I believe is necessary is lowering the voting age to 16. Currently

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    As a citizen it is our civic duty to go out and vote, the 26th Amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote just over 40 years ago, in Takoma Park Community Center a 16 year old Ben Miller will be able to vote in an election. According to the online article “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” written by Annys Shin, the Takoma City Council has granted Miller and 350 other 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in municipal elections, which has made Montgomery

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