Lowering Voting
My View on Lowering the Voting Age Voting, in my opinion, should not be lowered to 16 from the already legal age of 18. Coming from a 16 year old myself, I believe we are not capable of deciding something so drastically important. Yes, 16 is where freedoms begin, such as being able to get a driver's license, or begin working in the workforce. But voting, I think might be too much or even not enough for our age. First of all, at the middle age between adulthood and teenhood, 16, decisions aren’t entirely made well and we are far from mature. Sixteen year olds are still budding into maturity and learning new things everyday. Yes, we make efforts to be independent but, that’s the issue. Sometimes choices at this age aren’t processed thoroughly, and can lead to bad results. Another reason why it should not be lowered is because of the “immaturity” aspect is that we are still figuring out who we are. At this age, we still are finding who to fit in with, what we like and dislike, and so on. We can easily be peer pressured into the wrong decisions, in this case, who to vote for, which could lead to something terrible not only for you, but for the nation itself. Lastly, if the voting age was brought down to 16, candidates
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Voting is the least of their priorities. They are worried about so many other things like school, family, sports, absolutely whatever. Voting isn’t an everyday thought for most teens I would think. Teens, a lot of the time simply don’t take or have the time either. They have so many other things to go and that would be in the back of their minds compared to the other things going on in their life. I also think with this age group’s busy schedule, and if some of the teens did decide to vote, they may just choose someone at random without doing any research into the candidate. That could have huge and drastic positive or negative effect on the
Voting is the least of their priorities. They are worried about so many other things like school, family, sports, absolutely whatever. Voting isn’t an everyday thought for most teens I would think. Teens, a lot of the time simply don’t take or have the time either. They have so many other things to go and that would be in the back of their minds compared to the other things going on in their life. I also think with this age group’s busy schedule, and if some of the teens did decide to vote, they may just choose someone at random without doing any research into the candidate. That could have huge and drastic positive or negative effect on the