Okay, how would lowering the voting age benefit youth?
. Here, CPL journalists, complete work on their “NYC Kids React” youth suffrage article. Jason: It would benefit them because it gets them more active in their communities. Instead of feeling like prisoners who are forced to live there, by giving them a vote, you make sure they become connected with the people and the places where they live. Zach Hobesh, 15, National Youth Rights Association, Berkeley, Calif.: Lowering the voting age would establish voting habits in people younger than 18. Eighteen-year-olds are graduating high school, they are moving away from home, going away to college. They don’t have time to register to vote and that is why many of them don’t. So if they lowered it to 16, you’d have a lot more people in the habit of voting. CPL: But don’t you think some teenagers aren’t mature enough to vote? Pamela: Well, you could say a lot of adults aren’t ready to vote either. When you’re 18, are you just randomly ready to vote? It’s not that simple. People say that 18, 19, an
