The Benefits Of Changing The Voting Age

The age for voting has been a discussion for a long time, it has changed to fit the views of the people and what they think is the idealistic age. Now the debate is whether it should be changed to a lower age than it is now. One thought is to change the age allowing you to vote to 16. In the past, the age was lowered from 21 to 18 during the second World War. The reasoning behind the switch was “old enough to fight, old enough to vote.” The men were being sent off to war for their country but weren’t given the right to vote for their country's president. Also it might’ve changed the end result in those elections. However now in the present day, to what extent would lowering the voting age be effective in determining a fair outcome to presidential elections? This discussion is quite important to be seen through a political type lens. Changing the …show more content…
Looking more into how changing the age in a political perspective can help discover some pros or cons in the decision. A way of seeing what it can do for the elections is that it will make it so more people will vote. This will result in there being maybe a more evident choice of who the majority wants. On the other hand, some people believe that it will be a lower turnout because they are unwilling or unable to vote. There have been studies and polls to look more into this claim. Markus Wagner, David Johann, and Sylvia Kritzinger used a survey