Votes at 16

These arguments are some of the reasons why we urge you to vote pro. Contention 1: Lowering the voting age may increase voter turnout among 18-24-year-olds Fairvote.org quotes, “A detailed study of voters' ages and habits in Denmark found that 18-year-olds were far more likely to cast their "first vote" than 19-year-olds and that every…

Glenn Harvard Reynolds agrees that teens should not vote and he quotes, “Those too fragile to handle different opinions are too fragile to participate in politics.” Reynolds point is that if teens can not even take in other people’s opinions they should not have the right to vote. Another example of teens not being mature enough to vote is that they are politically less mature compared to how adults are. A study done by Mr. Chan and Mr. Clayton…

Jefferson. In order to vote for the President and Vice-President…

age should remain at 18, for a few reasons. Among these are that older voters are more aware of the issues, younger voters barely if at all are interested in what is going on in the country, and at the age of 16, I don't believe people are mature enough to truly grasp the impact their vote can have in bringing about change. Older voters are most likely plugged in to the day to day issuses that effect the country because more…

campaign in March 1999. By the time Iowa’s polls came out Bush was clearly the winner of the Republican party (George). Bush made different domestic promises for his campaign that he said he would fulfill if he got elected. These promises gave him more votes due to people seeking help issues they were facing. Bush’s promises were based around the economy, and the health care system. Bush’s health care promises were made to make insurance affordable for low income families, and to provide more…

Campaigning is another word for advertising 4. 18 years or more 5. As soon as everyone finishes voting the counting begins. 6. *governing party announces there wil be an election *all the parties start advertising. *every one 18 years or over more votes *as soon everyone finished voting the counting begins *winner is announced on the television and newspaper…

America is not a true democracy due to the electoral college system. The electoral college is the process that serves as a compromise between the vote of the people, and the vote of congress when electing a president. A true democracy is defined as “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” The electoral directly contradicts this definition,…

some teens get emotional sometimes; moreover, they make decisions very fast and don’t even think about it before making the decision of doing it. Even though, 57% people said yes that the voting age should be lowered to 16 and only 43% thinks that it should not be lowered than 16 or it should stay the same, but that is because more of the…

The government’s role regarding voter ID laws should to make a federal law stating that all needed in order to vote is a social security number. This is because voter ID laws suppress both racial and socioeconomic minorities, and waste huge amounts of money that can be spent making it easier to vote across the whole country, fulfilling the 15th amendment, and ultimately our democracy as well. In addition to the facts regarding how minorities are suppressed through these laws that I have already…

obligatory when leaders of a country have the right to do so, and when they feel it is a non-negotiable duty for citizens. Some leaders try to make it so everyone will vote regardless, others intentionally create loopholes in the system to avoid any abuses of freedom such as making it compulsory to register to vote, but not actually to cast the vote. In 2004, International IDEA found that 30 countries exercised compulsory voting, however some only on a federal, not a national level.…