LOWERING THE VOTING AGE! Or at the very least there should be some sort of compromise. I will be 18 a mere 2 days after the election, so to me, it seems ridiculous that I'm missing out on the election. There's talk about the age being lowered to 16, but that would sort of undermine the fact that most states recognized 18 year olds as adults...therefore they would technically be allowing "children" to be voting on the ruler of the county. Why don't we meet somewhere in the middle? What about if the person is 18 by the date of the new president's inauguration? That seems fair since nothing could feasibly change about that person in a 2 month span.
I can see why some people would want the age to be 16...it's like learning a language. The earlier you are exposed to a new language, the better chance you have of actyally learning that language...it's just the way that your brain absorbs the information. Therefore, it would make sense that the earlier you are exposed to politics and the process in becoming president, the better informed you would be later in life/in voting.
Maybe a good solution would be in introduce government classes to students in middle school and possibly even earlier. That way, the age could be lowered and the young voters would be recognized as "good" voters.
However, I think that this is highly unlikely, and therefore think that if you are 18 by the time of inauguration, you should be allowed to vote.
You could argue that there are people voting for the wrong reasons or on false information at any age and by allowing 16 year olds to vote you expand this probably. For this reason you can argue that democracy is not the best government for the people but we have had this idea imprinted in our mind forever. In the early 20th century the time between the election and inauguration was shorted to allow the new president to get in quicker and not have a "lame duck" president. Previously it was much longer due to the time it look for information and people to travel. Maybe the solution you are searching for is to move the election and inauguration closer to each other.
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