The United States of America has been one of the lowest Presidential voting participation countries in the world and many people could argue the different reasons for this. Honestly many of those reasons would probably be correct. Some people may argue that its because not enough people are allowed to vote and that they should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these
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Keep The Voting Age At 18 Recently‚ discussions have been made about proceding to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. I fully believe that the age should remain at 18‚ considering I myself happen to be 18 years of age and know for a fact that two years ago I was in no way capable of voting. We are better off keeping the statistics at 62% participating voters‚ then letting immature teenagers who want to be able to make adult decisions without adult responsibilties vote. Personally
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Some may believe that voting age is not the only reason as to why the teenagers are not paying attention to the politics and there is no evidence that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. They believe that there are major reasons as to why the political participation has declined rather that the issue of the voting age. While the view is probably wrong when they claim that there is no evidence to prove the connection between voting age and political participation‚ it is
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Analyzing the Negative Impacts of Lowering the Voting Age Justin Smith-Lorenzetti (6263537) Politics 110‚ Section B TA: Peter Rak‚ Section X Professor Rose Submitted November 8‚ 2010 Word Count: 1454 The debate between quantity and quality is an ever-present one in modern society‚ whether it be with number or quality of friends one person might have‚ the quantity or the quality of artwork that someone may own‚ or‚ most appropriately‚ the quality versus the quantity of votes taken at polls
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in? I certainly do not. The only practice teenagers have in anything voting wise is student government. Then again we must remember the homeschooled students. Most eighteen year olds are incapable of making life changing decisions‚ therefore the legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five. The legal voting age should be changed to twenty-five but‚ what exactly is so significant about that age. Well‚ twenty-five is the age when the adolescent brain has fully developed. Several car rental businesses
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ability to maturely handle voting. While politicians are still debating the topic‚ it is obvious that both sides of this subject have very logical arguments. In order to understand why lowering the voting age would even be considered‚ it is necessary to examine why the 26th amendment was passed in the first place. The United States was in the throes of the Vietnam War and protests were underway throughout the nation. Draftees into the armed services were any male over the age of 18. There was a seeming
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Voting helps shape your community! I voted yesterday to have my tax dollars help support the local science museum here. Earlier this year‚ I participated in a petition campaign to put our local government’s spending to a vote. They were passing a indebt to my grandchildren to pay for this year’s renovations of the government office buildings downtown without giving us a say in it. We got enough signatures to allow for a vote and We The People of my little city voted it down. To make changes
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07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual
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There are things in the world that can be changed‚ and just because you aren’t of voting age doesn’t mean you can’t change them. King Tut became the Pharaoh of Egypt at the ripe old age of nine years old. My point being‚ he probably wasn’t very prepared or as prepared as he may have been if he waited until her were thirty‚ but he still did it. You see more often than not politics‚ or the world for that matter‚ doesn’t wait for you to change but‚ for you to change it. If you want to make a difference
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Kirk Savva-Briggs Politics essay – Ms. Moss. 1. Explain the arguments in favor of lowering the voting age. With more and more of the younger generation getting involved in current political affairs and issues‚ the UK government is under increasing pressure to lower the current voting age from 18 years to 16. These are some of the following arguments that are in favor of lowering the voting age. Increased turnout. The UK is currently facing a declining participation from the general public in
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