What are the arguments in favor of lowering the voting age?
1.) What are the arguments in favor of lowering the voting age? Against? Explain.
2.) Being a young person (or when you were a young person), would you have participated in voting if you had been given the legal ability to do so? Do you think it would have impacted your interest in politics?
3.) What are your overall thoughts about this issue, given what you are read in the provided links above? Could this save democracy or will this just lead to more apathy and non-participation by an even larger group of potential voters?
For this discussion, we are going to consider lowering the voting age in an effort to raise voter turnout and engagement. Read the articles and do any extra research as necessary and then answer the following questions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/
http://theconversation.com/
1.) What are the arguments in favor of lowering the voting age? Against? Explain.
2.) Being a young person (or when you were a young person), would you have participated in voting if you had been given the legal ability to do so? Do you think it would have impacted your interest in politics?
3.) What are your overall thoughts about this issue, given what you are read in the provided links above? Could this save democracy or will this just lead to more apathy and non-participation by an even larger group of potential voters?
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Voting Patterns
The arguments in favor of lowering the voting age include the increased responsibility among citizens to participate in the voting process. According to Dahlgaard (2018), lowering the voting age could help young people develop a culture that would make them more likely to vote as adults than if they did not start participating early. Additionally, their participation could be of influence to their parents, thereby increasing the chances of parents participating in elections. However, the same arguments are used as sources of opposition to the proposition to lower the voting age.
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