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    Thesis: Lowering the voting age to 16, will be good for the country and the citizens. Lowering the voting age will be very good for the country and the citizens. According to youthrights.org, “the voting turnout will increase”. Teens can be charged as adults in a crime, but can’t vote? Politicians could actually relate to teens. Teens will be able to make decisions for their future. Teens hear about politicians talk about their future but have no voice in what they want. The voter turnout may

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    Lowering Voting Age

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    The problem with lowering the Voting Age The legal voting age here in the United States, is 18 years old. It's a considerable time for people to start voting around that time, due to the fact that most 18-year-olds will be out of High School and be entering the real world. The problem with lowering it to, "16 years of age" wouldn't be a wise decision. Due to the fact that High Schools at that age would most likely be entering their Junior Year and would have to focus on their own curriculum. Anothering

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    Voting Age Debate

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    stated in this argument. First lets jump in to the reason that lowering the age will increase the amount of voters participating. Instead of having only have 18 years or older voting the range will expand and allow many more people 16 and up to vote. Another reason is if the children of the family go vote it will influence the parents to also go to the polls as stated in “Top Ten Reasons to lower the voting age.” Also said in the article is at 14 years or older if committed

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    Voting Age in Canada The young as well as the older people of Canada seem to be in a deadlock. The question of if the federal government should or should not lower the voting age is a question debated surely around the dinner tables of families in Canada, as well as in the ranks of the government. Some people even suggest that the age needs to be raised. What would make people want the voting age to be lowered to an even lower age than the young adult age of 18? On the other hand how can the

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    start out by saying that the voting age should be changed to 21 years old instead of 18 years of age for a couple of reasons, My first reason is the simple fact that most you adults between the ages of 18 and 20 do not have firsthand experience on what impact the person they are voting for will have for this country. Most of these young adults will still be in school and they don't possess the maturity to make such decision. The second reason on why I think the voting age should be changed to 21 is

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    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. Unfortunately, younger people have other interests rather than politics.The least they want, is to have a responsability. They are happy having fun. For example, most students of highschool love to play

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    Recently, people have called out for the U.S. legal voting age to be lowered. If this is to happen the voting age would go down two years, from 18-16 years old. While some say it would help increase the voter participation, others have good reasons to think the opposite. Reasons for not lowering the voting age seem obvious to most people. The legal age at which one becomes an adult in the U.S. is at age eight-teen. Most eight-teen year olds are just graduating from high school, and moving

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    I believe that the voting age being lowered to 16 could possibly be a good idea, if the people are educated about what/who they're voting for. In the second passage it states, "America ranks at the bottom of developed naitions in turnout; with a voter turnout of 38%". This in itself is a problem. The first passage suggests that we could fix this by allowing people to vote from home or use Mobile voting booths. While the second passage says we should lower the legal voting age to 16. As I stated above

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    The voting age for the United States is set to eighteen years of age. The voting age being reduced to thirteen is childish. The votes would be set off of judgment. Instead of people researching and actually learning something about the canedit or the reason of voting then they should not be allowed vote. Thirteen year olds are immature and find the littlest of things to be upsetting. There should be no change in the voting age. To vote in a country the voters should at least know more on the fact

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    Disscussions of lowering the voting age has been a subject that most do not want to subject to, but let's face it. The issue at large is that voters in later years will be majority of older people, the youth of our country need's balance. Which in fact should influence young voters to step out there and have a voice, Since it will be our children and our grandchildren living in this country when we are dead and gone. So in turn another issue we will face is the category of what elder's think is

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