[LoftyPines]

I am heading to the polls around noon. I am getting the feeling that voter turnout will be higher this election, and I think you will see an increase in the youth vote. As the political junky in my group of friends, my previsouly disengaged buddies have been coming to me to find out where, and how to vote.

Hopefully they are leaning the same way as me. But if not I suppose thats why its a democracy.

Go Vote!

Speaking of youth vote, I read about a group that is trying to lower the voting age to 16. I guess the main arguement was that other people get to determine their/our future. Anyways, it was a decent read. And no, there is no point to this post.

I would like to read that if you could point me towards it. My thoughts without reading the article is that it is an unnecessary change to the elctorate. Those aged 18-25 represent the least-engaged part of the elecorate as it is. I think that if we can get that section of the population to start going to the polls, then we can think about lowering the voting age. Just my opinion of course.

Thoughts?