I stumbled across this site earlier while searching google. It is a "Youth Rights" blog dealing with issues around lowering to the voting age.
There are actually some good points made in some of the articles I read, enough where I almost feel that lowering the voting age to 16 would'nt be that bad of an idea, and there is a really good argument for at least lowering the age to 17. 17 year olds can enlist in the military if they have parental consent, and that was the nearly same argument that was used to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years ago. At the same time, it opens a pandora's box over issues dealing with being a "legal adult" that I don't think the judical system is ready to deal with.
There is huge difference between teenagers today, and teenagers 25 years ago. Maybe lowering the voting age could start a positive trend in citizen participation in local, state and fegeral elections. Maybe getting them started early will create more "awareness" in what goes on around them.
The issue definitly has it's positives and negatives, any comments? :question:
There are actually some good points made in some of the articles I read, enough where I almost feel that lowering the voting age to 16 would'nt be that bad of an idea, and there is a really good argument for at least lowering the age to 17. 17 year olds can enlist in the military if they have parental consent, and that was the nearly same argument that was used to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years ago. At the same time, it opens a pandora's box over issues dealing with being a "legal adult" that I don't think the judical system is ready to deal with.
There is huge difference between teenagers today, and teenagers 25 years ago. Maybe lowering the voting age could start a positive trend in citizen participation in local, state and fegeral elections. Maybe getting them started early will create more "awareness" in what goes on around them.
The issue definitly has it's positives and negatives, any comments? :question: