Should 16- and 17- year-olds be allowed to vote is what many people from the Takoma Park Community Center ask. In “ Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls” Annys Shin the author of the article has clearly claimed that Ben Miller along with 350 other students from Blair High School in the age of 16 and 17 were granted the right to vote in their recent election. People have asked themselves if that would be a good idea or will it just turn out into a huge disaster. In my opinion I think that they should have the voting age decrease and have student of the age of 16 and 17 should be able to have the privilege to vote.
If at the age of 18 people are already considered as “adults” … but are they really considered as adults? The government just considers them as adults for their own benefit such as being able to be sent off to war or to be able to vote. In the article it explains that “Eighteen-year-olds, it turns out, “are not a very good first voting age group”(Shin). I would say I agree with this because when everyone is in high school and students are close to being eighteen all they think about is that they will finally be able to get out of high school, be able to move out of their house, and be able to be a bit more dependent on their own and not think about voting. …show more content…
In my personal experience I feel that since I am learning about how the voting system works, and since we had our recent election and if the age of voting was 16 and 17 I would vote since I meet the requirements to vote. If we had the chance to be able to vote at the age mentioned in the election of 2016 then we would have made a difference especially for those who don’t agree of the future
If at the age of 18 people are already considered as “adults” … but are they really considered as adults? The government just considers them as adults for their own benefit such as being able to be sent off to war or to be able to vote. In the article it explains that “Eighteen-year-olds, it turns out, “are not a very good first voting age group”(Shin). I would say I agree with this because when everyone is in high school and students are close to being eighteen all they think about is that they will finally be able to get out of high school, be able to move out of their house, and be able to be a bit more dependent on their own and not think about voting. …show more content…
In my personal experience I feel that since I am learning about how the voting system works, and since we had our recent election and if the age of voting was 16 and 17 I would vote since I meet the requirements to vote. If we had the chance to be able to vote at the age mentioned in the election of 2016 then we would have made a difference especially for those who don’t agree of the future