Should 18-Year Olds Be Allowed To Vote?

During this time of year when the age limit changed in Takoma Park, the city clerk, Jessie Carpenter, estimated “that about 90 16- and 17-year-olds have registered to vote.” Although this may seem as if it isn’t a huge number, no one would expect this number of teenagers to be interested in voting. This would lead to being a step closer to getting the number of teenagers to increase in order to outnumber their older peers. Some argue that “ever since the 26th Amendment gave 18-year-olds the right to vote more than 40 years go, younger voters have been something of a bust.” Many believe that even having 18-year-olds vote has a negative side to it, but in order for the voting community to expand it is needed to find motivation and ways to help