An Argument In Favor Of Voting In The United States

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It is your eighteenth birthday. You are free to do anything legal that want. So the first thing you are going to do is go out and vote right? There are many things that young americans take for granted. Voting is a very important matter that young adults in the United States do not consider it a priority to take the time to make their voice be heard. This is sad but hard true fact and something has to be done about it. The most obvious solution is to motivate young americans to go out, cast their vote, and have a say in how our government operates. Voting is a right and civic duty to vote, then we fail to create a government that is supposed to represent the people.
That is, by not voting our government cannot reflect our opinions are not being counted.
For this reason, we must perform our duty to vote so that we may create an honest and successful nation. Voting is
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We should be very thankful for living in a free country. Everyone who is able to vote in the next upcoming election 2016. I encourage you go out and vote. Issues such as these are important to me because I believe our country would benefit from more educated voters. Young people will not only be running the country, but also deciding the lives of future generations. The decisions we make while we are in control will affect those in the future. Therefore it is especially important for young people will show the rest of the country teenagers are mature and ready to take on the responsibilities our future brings. The faster we act as a nation, the sooner we should experience the benefit of its results. Young adults need to realize that people around the world and in history died to have the freedom to vote, the right to be heard in the government. This education will be the way to increasing voting turnout because once the importance of this right is realized, it will be exercised by young

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