National Youth Rights Association

From a local teen website in Nashville, TN:

Do you think the voting age is fair, or do you think it should be changed?

“I think it’s fair because older people usually have had more experience.”
- Francis, Father Ryan

“I think it’s fair. That’s the age when you get most other responsibilities, and it’s like a reward.”
- Ross, Spring Hill

“I think it should be changed because teens should have a say of who’s running the country. We live here, too!”
- Armesha, Madison Academy

“I think it’s fair because younger people aren’t as educated.”
- Cori Anne, Franklin

“I think it’s fair because that’s when you’re legally an adult.”
- David, Father Ryan

“I think it’s fair. Some people younger than 18 are responsible enough, but I think 18 is a good age.”
- Lesley, Hume-Fogg

“I think it’s fair. Some people younger than 18 are responsible enough, but I think 18 is a good age.”
- Lesley, Hume-Fogg

With that logic, why don't we advocate raising the voting age to 20, because it's divisible by 10?

I disagree. Just because you disagree with someone does not mean you or anyone else has the right to take their rights away.

Well, that's stupid. Your "sarcasm," or whatever you want to call it, as has been pointed out before, is not funny or always easy to detect.

Adam;225073 wrote: “I think it’s fair. That’s the age when you get most other responsibilities, and it’s like a reward.”
- Ross, Spring Hill

A reward? For what? Surviving the hell that is earth for 18 years? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

SciVille;225124 wrote: Hey, now, Armesha had the right idea.

Exactly.

I am against there being a voting age in the first place. Whoever wants to vote should be allowed to. Not that that is a realistic goal, even lowering it by a year would be amazing as things are going, but that is what I am aiming for, and if I could reform a state as I saw fit, there would be no voting age. There would however be checks to keep abuse of this to a minimum. For example, a parent could not register a child to vote, nor help a child vote if the child clearly does not know what he or she is doing. Only children who took the trouble to register themselves for the vote (and parents forcing children to do so or to vote would be subject to penalties) would be allowed to do so.

But why do we need to test voting? Voting "badly" isn't dangerous like driving badly is. In fact, what is voting badly? Voting for a candidate you don't like? But who decides who is voting badly? It is my belief that in a democracy, by definition it is nobody's place to second-guess anybody's vote. If we can do that, then if I were put in charge of determining who is capable, I might decide that all Republicans in the US are incapable of voting. It is the right of US citizens to vote, no matter how they should choose to use that right. After all, stupid people have issues that affect them too.

However, if the only way people would agree to lower the voting age would be if a test was put in place, I would agree to that. The test I would use would be something like a final exam for a government course. Name the three branches, what each one does, what does the First Amendment say, stuff like that. Probably also throw in some current events. Name 3 issues in this election and similar questions.

Yes. The test I am proposing is similar to the one used as a citizenship test.