Essay Writing

Are you in favor or against for raising the voting age?

Voting is the main feature of democracy. It is the expression of our opinion and
preference. In Bolivia we are authorized to vote from 18 years old. Many people
think that is a good age to vote. However, others people think that 18-years person
are not prepare to vote and the voting age should be raised. I am in favor of raising
the voting age for the following reasons.
Firstly, 18 years old people are not mature enough to vote. Firstly, 18 years old
people are recently finishing the high school, so they are not very interested in
politics. For example, many young people of 18 years old dont care about who will
govern their country. Moreover, 18 years old people do not know the candidates and
theirs proposals. For instance, many young people vote for the candidate whose
their parents vote.Finally, 18 years old people sometimes dont go to vote because
they dont care about it. To illustrate, in the last election many young people did not
go to vote and others were not even registered.
Secondly, 18 years old people are not very involved in society. To begin with, 18
years old people are recently graduated from the high school, so they dont know
about how the society works and how it influence the economy. For example, young
people dont know how fiscal politic and monetary politic affect the economy and
society. On the other hand, 18 years old people are still living at home and are still
naive to certain aspects of life. To illustrate, they dont know how the government
obtains its resources. Finally, 18 years old people dont work, so they dont know the
benefits that the governments give to people. For example, labor benefits or
retirement. In conclusion, 18 years old people dont have enough knowledge about
how society functions.
Thirdly, 18 years old people do not have appropriate responsability to do their
duty as a voter or electoral jury. Firstly, 18 years old people dont like to go to vote.
For instance, my cousin hates to go voting. On the other hand, when they are
elected as a electoral jury, they dont go. For example, In many polling booth there
werent the enough number of electoral juries because some of them were 18 years
old people last year. Finally, 18 years old people think that elections dont matter or
that is a waste of time. For example, many 18 years old people vote at random
because they dont care about the elections.
Thus, the voting age should be raised, since people should have more
experience before voting. 18 years old people are not mature enough to vote, they
are not involved in society and they dont have the appropriate responsability to do
their duty as a voter. I highly recommend that the coting age should be raised to 21
years.