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Look both ways: Lowering the voting age

Summary by Northern Star
VOTING AGE SHOULD BE LOWERED Gabriel Santos, Opinion Columnist In the U.S., you must be 18 in order to vote, whether that be for your mayor, your governor or the president. However, I believe the voting age should be lowered to 16 to allow for younger perspectives. The voting age has been 18 since 1971, when it was lowered from 21 as part of the 26th Amendment’s ratification. The movement for a lowered voting age came when 18-year-olds were draf…
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Northern Star broke the news in on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
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