How about raising the normal voting age to 21 (or 25), but extending franchise to citizens who enlist in (or are conscripted into) the armed forces beginning at the age of 18?
“How about raising the normal voting age to 21 (or 25), but extending franchise to citizens who enlist in (or are conscripted into) the armed forces beginning at the age of 18?”
I am against the Federal Government setting any kind of voting age. The Federal Government is best left out of matters of elections, as to keep such matters as decentralized and therefore difficult to permanently hijack as possible.
If a State is to raise the voting age a matter I fully support it should be at least 25 as the human mind is not fully developed until that time.