Explain The Arguments In Favour Of Lowering Vot

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The current voting age in the UK is 18. There has been much controversy on this issue involving lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. There are many reasons that have been put forward in favour of reducing the voting age. One of these arguments is that reducing the age will make issues regarding the youth more relevant. If we lower the voting age to 16 their views will be clearer as they will be able to vote on who represents them as a minority and will put their views across in their favour. When the government makes decisions regarding the youth they need to make sure that they are in understanding of what younger people want and what they think as. If this does not happen they will not be making the best decision as it will not be representative of the youth and unfair as other people would be making decisions on behalf of them and they are not able to decide on who those people are. It is important they are somewhat a part of making these decisions as it is involving them, for example education and career is important in this time of their lives and as this is a key topic in election time it will be fair in letting them have some sort of way in having their voices be heard. Another argument for reducing the vote age is that younger people are making important decisions such as in their education, employment and in life, for example people at the age of 16 are able to get married, therefore they should be able to vote as if they are able to make such choice in their life they should be able to vote on a representative they agree with based on their individual thoughts and understanding. Also there isn’t a huge difference between the ages 18 and 16 therefore their knowledge at the age of 16 to 18 does not have a significant difference and they are as capable of making a good decision at the age of 16 compared to 18. Others may argue that reducing the age
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