Stereotypes In Voting

Teens, the group that has been misunderstood for many years, are actually the future of our Country. The turnouts in the voting polls have not been the best for our younger eligible voters, they are voting at a much lower rate than their older counterparts, in this case their elders. According to Rob Richie, director of the national reform organization FairVote and a resident of the Montgomery County, which is the first to lower the voting age to sixteen says he had seen documents from Denmark reporting that “younger teenagers are more likely to cast a ballot than their slightly older peers” which might just boost the turnouts in the voting polls for our younger citizens, and completely change results of upcoming elections. Which comes to show how much of an impact lowering the voting age to sixteen can have on this country. …show more content…
Teens have many bad habits, procrastinating, forgetting to do chores, etc. but one good habit that we should be able to pick up is voting. We can learn to do so in high school since we do spend the most important four years of our lives here, if we are given the privilege to vote like Ben Miller and three-hundred and fifty of his classmates did at Montgomery Blair High School. If we are eligible to vote now and start getting into a routine of knowing politics and being able to know how to vote to the best of our ability for what we believe in, voting numbers will skyrocket when it's time for our next election and will only continue to grow after that with the following generation of