Arguments For and Against Lowering the Voting Age to 16
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Should the voting age in this country be lowered to 16 or kept at 18? Or do you only have enough experience to vote aged 21, or older? Join the debate here
With the next General Election some three years away, we in PoliticsLab asked how members of the public feel about the current minimum voting age: 18. Do they think 18 is the right age to be afforded the right the vote in elections? Or did you think it the age needs to go higher or lower?
Discussions over the voting age are inevitably tied up with that small matter of the 'age of majority’, or the age at which individuals are recognised as adults in law.
Where some feel that the voting age should be lowered to 16 – the same age at which you can legally marry, have sex, and enter the armed forces in most of the UK, others think that 18 is still too young an age at which individuals can start voting in elections. Instead, some argue that people should be given the vote in their twenties, once they've gained some life experience, are paying taxes, and can think independently.