17 year old citizens should not be allowed to vote on local issues and local candidates. The argument that allowing seventeen year olds to vote would cause more citizens to participate and be active in their democracies is a bit of a skewed perspective. To elaborate, the maturity of the average seventeen year old compared to the average eighteen year old is not that far apart for this scenario to take place. Especially considering how the correlation between age and grade level in the education system varies so widely, there is no way to tell that seventeen year olds would vote enough to make a noticeable difference. Because of this uncertainty, there is no way to gauge that allowing younger people to vote would actually make those same
