I happen to believe that lowering the voting age is not a very good idea. The reasoning behind my opinion is that children, who are not of the adult age of 18 yet, could be coerced by their parents to vote the way their parents want, instead of having their own educated opinion. The reason that the older generation has a higher voting percentage, according to the newspaper articles, is because the older generation has seen years of politics working or not working in their lifetime to make better judgments in their voting. The older generation also tend to care for more investments than the younger generation, and are more likely to get out and vote in order to protect those investments. The problem we face is an educational
