Argument Essay: Keeping The Voting Age

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We all have kids, as we once were kids ourselves, at a young age I never wanted to vote as I am sure most people did not either. Having to leave home to vote was a factor and having to follow the whole political process.

Nobody wants to leave from there house to wait in lines just to place a vote even more so if they are younger and have plans or no time. With that being said lowering the age group of voting to under 18 is useless as is shown In the essay " Keep the Voting age at 18" states that " A U.S Census Bureau report only 38% of voters in the 18-24 age group voted in 2012." Therefore anyone under the age of 18 is 50% likely to not show up either.

There is more to the process that just going and putting stuff in a computer screen. When voting you have to follow the whole political process to even know what is going on, or what you are even going to vote for. As for teenagers it is hard enough to stay off the phone,they are more focused of texting or facebook than following the whoel process leading up to the election. The essay " Keeping the Voting Age at 18" tells us that " 62% of the youngewst voters showed disintrest in the political process by not voting." That alone proves that if adults are at disintrest and not voting that anyone under 18 would be the same way. …show more content…

This is a good way to get the voting participation to where your country wants it to be. However requiring citizens to vote could have a negative outlook, for teenagers are young and have disintrest. Therefore most of the votes are done out of carelessness there would be no way of knowing if the election is a fair win because most teenagers when made to do soemthing go agianst it. With that they would more and likely just pick something not knowing anything about

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