Should 16-17 years olds Citizens Be Allowed to Vote? If letting 16-17 year old citizens vote could have change the turnout of voters in this past election, there would have been a difference in choosing who the next president. I know for sure that if the voting age was 16 there would have been more people at the polls then ever. I agree with having the legal voting age to 16 because there are a lot of students at this age that are focusing more on how they could change the fate of their home. There are more 16 year olds getting involved in politics then there are with elder folk. When younger people register to vote they tend to get more involved for the the next election to come. During this past election there were less turnouts than ever, people didn’t go out to vote because they either didn’t like any of the candidates or they just weren’t sure of who to choose. These teens are getting more educated about elections because of schools and the classes that they take. Making this change can also make a difference in the voter turnouts for elections to come because the will be more involved and make a difference in the future. There was one person who voted no on letting ungerage voters, Fred Schultz. Schultz said that the result won’t be worth the time and effort the city has devoted ...Nor will it do much to achieve the goal of getting younger voters engaged in politics. Meaning that there is no way that after letting 16 and 17 year olds vote will make them politically active. I personally believe that he is wrong in the sense of assuming that these teens won’t be more engaged because form witnessing the 2016 elections I saw more teens involved with everything that was
It’s very unsettling to know that there was a six percent decrease in young voters (ages 18-29) in the 2012 election compared to 2008 (Circle Youth data). In 2007 the National Conference of State Legislatures publicly released a report and data set on voter turnout in democratic countries. This is a quote from that report titled Getting out the Vote, “It should be noted that in 1972, 18-year-olds were added to the eligible voting population, thus decreasing the percentages. Nonetheless, voter tu...
Research has brought about an abundance of reasons why youth are becoming less engaged in the political process. Education, absence of political knowledge, the media and family influence, indifference to election campaigns, inadequate amount of change, and lack of motivation are all possible factors in influencing the youth voter turnout.
When analyzing the voting turn out in this nation is becomes evident that the youth of America tends to be less active compared to their elders. Written in the book "Is Voting for Young People" by Martin P. Wattenberg he breaks down the key components connecting the youth of America to voting in order to come to the conclusion of how active the youth is in politics, and ways to make them more involved.
In Carrie Kirby's article "Why Students Want to Lower the Voting Age" published in the October 7th, 2015 edition of The Atlantic, Kirby looks into the arguments being made by student activists in San Francisco who are trying to lower the voting age to 16. She begins by mentioning Oliver York, a 16-year old who has an answer to practically any question one could raise about allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. York argues that this case is similar to those which occurred in the early 1900s in the fight for women's suffrage, any how many had dismissed the thought because they would "just vote the way [their] husbands would vote." Jillian Wu, another 16-year old, points out that 44% of Scottish teens voted differently than their parents during
Today in America, less than half of young voters between the ages of 18 and 24 vote (TheBestColleges.org). What most of these new adults fail to realize, is that their government depends on them to vote and elect new leaders to represent their country. Many of them make excuses to avoid voting, when really, they benefit most from voting.
Voting participation is one of the most common controversies in today’s society. Thom File of the Young Adult Voting: An Analysis of Presidential Elections, 1964-2012 states that, “Voting rates, which represent the number of voters relative to a given population or subpopulation, have varied across recent election cycles with the general outcome being that voting rates increase with age. In every presidential election since 1964, young voters between the ages of 18 through 24 have consis-tently voted at lower rates than all other age groups, although young-adult voting rates have fluctuated from one election to another (Young Adult Voting: An Analysis of Presidential Elections,
Although there are 44 million eligible young voters ages 18-29, in 2012 only 45% of them voted. These young people make up one fifth, or 21%, of the eligible voting population, yet they often do not vote. Voting is a tremendous gift. Young people in many other countries around the world have to fight to gain this right. In America, voting is often taken for granted by all age groups, but the youth take it for granted the most. In this paper, the reason why young people do not vote will be explored and solutions as to how to get them to vote will be proposed.
Should teens should be allowed to vote? Teens should be allowed to vote because they want to know about the world. They want to have a say in what is happening in their community because they have really good ideas . They will also be able to learn how to make good and smart decisions for the future. Barthakurm said, “ When a person grows up their brain has actually shrunk...but when your 13, your brain is ¾ of the way done being grown.”
If we lower the voting age we wont get the out come we are looking for, mainly because 16 year olds are nessairly worried about the major issues. Do we really want a 16 year old helping deciding who is on office. How about we let them be 16.
A eighteen year old boy was allowed to vote for a president but he couldn't smoke. Eighteen year old should be able to buy tobacco. When you're eighteen you can vote,Join the military, and be treated as an adult for a crime. Most of the things that you can do when you're eighteen you can do when you're twenty one expects buying tobacco now and alcohol. There was a time before were eighteen olds could buy tobacco for many years , so why change it now.
According to the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting lowering the voting age in 1971, this leads to a search for a way to contribute to change, often birthing violent or destructive pastimes, instead of the constructive act of voting. Lowering the voting age would give teens the power to change the world, thus empowering and rejuvenating a politically wary social group. Politicians have no reason to care about the interests of 16 and 17-year-olds under current law, in contrast, with the proposed law, politicians would be required to fight for the interests of said younger group to keep their job. Bolstering the morale and democratic ideals of a struggling adolescent generation is a massive effect this small alteration in current legislation would
In “You’re 16, You’re Beautiful and You’re a Voter,” author Anya Kamenetz states her belief that the voting age should be lowered to sixteen. Kamenetz gives several premises to her argument.
Now at this time, anyone can vote. That is, anyone eighteen or older. I believe that we should lower the voting age to sixteen. To understand my point, we must observe three different points. First, we consider the responsibilities of youth and their lack of rights.
Politics doesn’t typically excite the average teen due to the fact that adults are only granted the right to vote and participate. Since is has been the responsibility for an adult to vote, the idea of voting is ultimately irrelevant to 16-17 year olds and they will most likely keep the same mindset since we are so used to the adults voting, which makes no difference in participation if teens were given the right to vote now. Ben Miller, a resident of Takoma Park, where teens were given the right to vote stated that he had no burning issues motivating him to vote. However, he is one of few teens who has “politically active parents” making him somewhat interested in politics, but not many teens discuss politics with their parents which creates no interest or desire on the topic. Due to the fact that not many teens are surrounded or sparked by the topic of politics while growing up makes voting for them somewhat useless if they aren’t interested in getting involved at their
Lowering the voting age to 16 will provide people who have roots in the community and pay more attention to local issues. Youth have comfortable surroundings such as school, parents, and a stable friend. They feel connected to their community which would increase their desire and will feel the need to vote. Granting the youth the right to vote will have a direct effect on their character, intelligence and a sense of responsibility. The youth feel apathetic because after 18 years of their lives being told that their opinions or their circumstances do not matter, why wouldn’t they feel turned off by politics and not vote.