Voting Age To 16 Essay

I believe that the current voting age should be maintained at 18 instead of 16. i believe that even if they were to change the legal voting age to 16 that many young people would still not vote. i also think that they should keep the voting age at 18 because 16 year olds are not ready for the responsability of voting,and many of them still most likely dont understand how serious voting actually is. I dont think they should change the voting age to 16 from 18 because i don't think many young people would vote. In 2012 only 38% of voters were between the ages of 18 and 24,also in 2012 they said 62% of younger voters were not actually interested in voting. Personally I am 24 years old and have never had a interest in voting before this past year. Many of the people I have spoken to in my age group have never voted or have a interest in voting ethier. I believe that if they change the rule to 16 the percent of younger people voting would still stay very low because they cant force people to vote in America and most younger people just aren't interested in politics yet. Just because they changed the the age to 16 doesnt mean that the percent of younger people voting would increase. Another reason i believe that the voting age should stay at age …show more content…
I believe the 16 year olds in America just arent ready to vote and also because i dont think they will have much interest in voting if the statistics of voters between 18 and 24 is so low already I don't see it increasing just cuz they lower the age to 16. Maybe someday we will be ready to change the voting age to 16 but before then I think we need to get younger people interested in politics and interested in voting that way if they do lower the age at least they know that the 16 year olds know about voting and actually care about it that way we can see the number of younger people voting