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	Youth Vote News
		Numerous reports show that since the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1972, the rate of participation among people under the age of 25 has declined by about 15%, compared with about 4% in the general population.
		Because the voting age for general elections has not been lowered in any states, conclusive research on its effects is not available.
		Age 18 is a poor time to allow young people to start voting because they are often in transition.
	www.youthvote.org /news/newsdetail.cfm?newsid=363 (1446 words)

	Under-aged Voting
		Hence the 26th Amendment to the Constitution in 1972 that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
		Age 18 is the typical age of movement between high school and college, civilian and military, living with parents and living independently.
		The concept of children voting is not a symptom of political necessity in conformity to America's republican form of government.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article3333.html (730 words)

	Should voting age fall to 16?
		Since the national voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, the voting rate among 18- to 24-year-olds has dropped fairly steadily.
		The voting age was set at 18 because that's the age at which people could be drafted and die for their country.
		By lowering the voting age to 16, "you might be able to make voting part of a civics education class," said Mark Lopez, research director at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/04/08/loc_votingage09.html (1392 words)

	Youth Suffrage - Lowering the Voting Age
		A brief history of the movement to lower the national voting age from 21 to 18.
		State legislatures are considering a variety of approaches, from partial votes starting at age 14 to resolutions urging Congress to change the voting age nationwide.
		Examines the reasons for lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
	www.freechild.org /SNAYR/suffrage.htm (417 words)

	Voting age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The voting age is the minimum legal age at which a person may vote in a governmental election.
		Guatemala: 18 years of age; universal (active duty members of the armed forces may not vote and are restricted to their barracks on election day)
		Italy: 1975 (voting age to elect the Senate remained at 25)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voting_age (840 words)

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		But advocates for a lower voting age say 18 is the worst time to start voting because that's when teenagers' lives are in turmoil - moving away to college, stressing out over graduation, getting a job, joining the armed forces.
		The voting age was set at 18 because that's the age at which people could be drafted and sent to die for their country.
		Since the national voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, the voting rate among 18- to 24-year-olds in the United States has dropped fairly steadily.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/national/040904b7_voting_age (1145 words)

	Young Voices: Voting age? \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The age of 18 is usually just about the time when a young person is graduating from high school and even moving out to live on their own to become their own individual in society instead of being sheltered by their parents.
		The voting age should definitely not be raised because 18 is the age when a male has to register for the draft.
		It would simply not be fair if the voting age was raised to 21 and these young 18-year-olds are possibly sent off to war (or their death) without getting a say on the matter.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/83082 (1685 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Voting age 'should stay the same'
		Campaigners who want 16-year-olds to be able to vote have suffered a blow from the elections watchdog which says the voting age should stay at 18.
		But the commission says the voting age question could be revisited and there is no reason why the age for election candidates should not be harmonised with the voting age.
		The report comes after a poll suggested MPs agree the age limit for standing for Parliament should be reduced but think the voting age should stay the same.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3637953.stm (534 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The New Gerrymandering by Lowell Ponte
		We logically lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 when 18-year-olds were being drafted to fight in Vietnam.
		Vasconcellos’ aim in gerrymandering the electorate by lowering the voting age boundary is obvious.
		The dead, of course, were the key Democratic voting group that carried Chicago, and with it Illinois, and with it the Presidency in 1960 for the first JFK.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12532 (2175 words)

	Democrat seeks to lower voting age - The Washington Times: Metropolitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Miranda Rosenberg, a student in Palm Beach, Fla., and founder of www.voteat16.com, is trying to lower the state's voting age to 16 from 18.
		The last time the voting age became a national issue was in 1971, when the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified, lowering the age from 21 to 18.
		Voting age also has been a hot international topic, with Germany several years ago lowering the age to 16.
	washingtontimes.com /metro/20030826-104300-8335r.htm (660 words)

	Extending the voting age downward \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		It has been 33 years since the voting age was lowered to 18 on the notion that anyone old enough to die for his country should be able to vote for it.
		The truth is that there isn't any single age of maturity, or right of passage, or coming of age ceremony in our culture or in our laws. The age of puberty is down as low as 9 and the age of economic independence stretches from 18 to let's-not-go-there.
		Voting would be a larger issue in classrooms." Instead of mock elections, there would be real ones and schools might well, he says, demystify the ballot and promote registration.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040508/news_1e8goodman.html (782 words)

	Should the voting age be raised?
		Discuss the merits of raising the voting age or keeping the status quo only as they apply to the maturity, independence, education, etc., of people in that age grouping, and not with regard to whether they are permitted or required to do other things at that age.
		I'll urge those who are around the age of 18 or nearing it to please not simply react to having to wait longer to vote.
		That was the argument for lowering the voting age to 18.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=98379 (1889 words)

	Voting Age/Drinking Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The voting age here is 18, I think it should be 16, since we have to pay taxes no matter how old we are..
		Well I think the voting age should stay the same, but as for the drinking age, which is 21 where I live should be lowered to 18.
		If kids were allowed to vote at age 3 they would be in the habit and they would have the skills to vote they would grow up doing it and hopefully continue.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm54774.html (1559 words)

	Lowering the Voting Age: Good or Bad Move? \| Progressive U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The fact of the matter is this: lowering the voting age to 14 wouldn’t help increase our nation’s political participation because the votes that they add to the total would be based on impulse and not based on facts and research done.
		So, in turn, this bill is allowing parents to vote twice for the candidate of their choice as opposed to allowing a young citizen to educated themselves on a specific candidate and in turn vote for themselves.
		Giving the right to vote to people who are not mature enough or willing enough to use their power affectively, goes against everything that enstating this law was set out to do.
	www.progressiveu.org /065022-lowering-the-voting-age-good-or-bad-move (2293 words)

	Suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Universal suffrage is the term used to describe a situation in which the right to vote is not restricted by race, sex, belief or social status.
		There have been proposals to lower the national voting age to 16 in the United Kingdom, one of the arguments for which being that, as people of 16 can marry, join the Army and pay taxes, for example, they should be allowed a say in the country's running.
		In the United States, voting privileges are denied to prisoners by some states, but several other countries (including most countries of the European Union) allow all prisoners to vote, regardless of time served and nature of the crime.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Suffrage (2046 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Youths Urge Lowering of City Voting Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Councillor Marjorie C. Decker said she is concerned that lowering the voting age could have implications on the juvenile criminal justice system, saying some may claim that if 16-year-olds can vote then they should be treated as "adults for all purposes," including being tried as adults for crimes.
		While they have not taken a position on the issue, the members brought up the feasibility of implementing the lower voting age, discussing how registration would be implemented and whether separate voting lists and ballots would have to be created for students only voting in Cambridge elections.
		Heintz said he believes lowering the voting age is worth trying-especially in Cambridge, a community known for local political activism.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=104317 (1065 words)

	AlterNet: Top 10 Reasons to Lower the Voting Age to 16
		Kids Voting, a program in which children participate in a mock vote and accompany their parents to the polls on Election Day, has shown that even this modest gesture increases the whole family's interest in voting.
		Young voters are likely to vote in much the same way as their parents, not because they are coerced to do so but because of shared values.
		Lowering the voting age may not be the magic bullet to improve the lives of youth, but by giving youth a real stake in their futures, it will push them to become involved, active citizens of this great nation.
	www.alternet.org /story/18256 (1002 words)

	Should the voting age be lowered? \| Progressive U
		The votes of today will undoubtedly affect the lives and well being of these teenagers within a couple of years, so should their voices be heard by way of a vote?
		We need to focus on educating those that are currently eligible to vote before we toss another age group into the mix and add the ignorance that plagues our system.
		I agree that everyone of age should have the right to vote, but it is also for ADULTS, and you are not considered an adult until you are 18.
	www.progressiveu.org /190000-should-the-voting-age-be-lowered (2157 words)

	University of Pennsylvania ADC \| Dementia Voting Project Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A Washington-based voting rights attorney aligned with the Texas Democratic Party is challenging a Texas law that makes it a crime to put other voters’ absentee ballots in the mail or deliver them to election officials.
		These advocacy groups contend the current age requirement of 18 is arbitrary and emphasize the similarities in cognitive abilities between teenagers and adults.
		ASFAR, has suggested alternatives to a designated voting age which would base young people’s right to vote on competency: a “voting test” that be could be designed and implemented to determine whether a young person could vote.
	www.uphs.upenn.edu /ADC/info-DVP-research.shtml (1408 words)

	Kids Voting
		This would indicate that Kids Voting was a factor in the decision of at least 600,000 adults to vote in 1996.
		Kids Voting USA is addressing citizen apathy on an issue that is fundamental to a democracy - the importance of Voting.
		Kids Voting projects are led by a board of civic and business leaders and involve parents, schools and community volunteers to implement the program.
	www.newlondonwi.org /kids_voting.htm (1152 words)

	Assembly Turns Down Move To Lower Voting Age - Election 2006 - KTVU.com \| KTVU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The proposal, by Assemblyman Gene Mullin, D-South San Francisco, aims to encourage voting among adults between the ages of 18 and 24, who have the lowest voter turnout of all age groups.
		Opponents worried that because the U.S. Constitution sets the minimum voting age at 18, California election results could be questioned in a tight race.
		Another proposed constitutional amendment to change the voting age is pending in the state Senate.
	www.ktvu.com /politics/3418085/detail.html (515 words)

	Census Bureau, Voting-Age Projections
		This reflects the aging of the "Baby Boomer" generation, those born between 1946 and 1964.
		"By November 1998, this group is projected to include 58 million people or almost 3 in 10 of the voting age population." The size of the 65-and-over population, who usually have high rates of voter participation, is expected to remain nearly the same as in 1996, at 34 million.
		The Census Bureau's voting-age population figures include both people who are eligible to vote and those not eligible to vote, such as noncitizens, convicted felons and prison inmates.
	www.census.gov /Press-Release/cb98-81.html (698 words)

	Youth Radio
		It would give teenagers as young as fourteen a fractional vote in state and local elections: sixteen year olds would be granted half an adult vote; fourteen year-olds a quarter vote.
		In the past few months, lowering the voting age has become something of a personal crusade for him.
		We’re not denying 16 year olds the right to vote, we’re just saying you have to reach a certain age to be able to vote.
	www.youthradio.org /politics/kpfa040327_voting.shtml (979 words)

	Spectrum 2005
		Now he is supporting the campaign to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
		The bill would lower the voting age to 16 in municipal elections, which include those for mayor, controller, borough presidents and city council members.
		It was the largest turnout in that age group since 1972, the year that 18-year-olds were first allowed to vote, according to the nonpartisan Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
	journalism.nyu.edu /ujw/2005/ujvote.htm (887 words)

	Lowering the Voting Age Petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Germany- Several states lowered the voting age to 16 for local elections, with higher turnout for voters under 18 than for 18-24 year-olds.
		The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
		The Lowering the Voting Age Petition to U.S. Congress was created by Members of High School Democrats and written by Ahmed Kokon (akokon@gmail.com).
	www.petitiononline.com /votenow/petition.html (950 words)

	26: Voting at age 18
		In 1965, Barry McGuire's song "Eve of Destruction" had a special poignancy as young men died in Vietnam: "You're old enough to kill, but not for voting." In one of the nation's most turbulent decades, a growing sentiment arose for extending the voting franchise to 18-year-olds.
		A constitutional amendment was quickly passed putting the voting age for all elections at 18.
		Thirty years after her age group was given the vote, Cherice Tillman, 18, of Homewood, voted in the May 7 primary at the Baptist Temple in Pittsburgh's 13th Ward.
	www.post-gazette.com /nation/20021127amendment_26p9.asp (249 words)

	By the People: Election 2004 . Savvy Voter \| PBS
		This amendment, ratified by state legislatures in 1971, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in all federal, state and local elections.
		Passage of the 26th Amendment also lowered the "age of majority" (the age where persons are considered legal adults) in all states.
		Once the discussion on past voting rights and the related activity is concluded, the teacher might discuss how citizens in a representative democracy make their wishes known: primarily by writing letters to their representatives.
	www.pbs.org /elections/kids/lessons/lesson_plan14.html (1464 words)

	Voting-Age Population Continues to Increase in North Dakota
		The number of North Dakota residents of voting age was estimated at 487,298 in 2002, an increase of 5,947 persons or 1.2 percent from the 2000 Census.
		The age differential in voting is an extremely important factor in the outcome of elections.
		Along with gender and age, other indicators were also related to the propensity to vote in the 2000 presidential election.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/2003/110603/08voting.htm (511 words)

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