Should the minimum voting age be lowered?

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@9FB49RXfrom Ontario disagreed…2yrs2Y

Your brain is not fully developed until age 25. This is medically absolute fact. Letting 18 year old people vote is tangential to letting high school students vote.

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@9F976D8 from Washington disagreed…2yrs2Y

But the thing is, if we constrain the voting age to adults, young adults will never get a say in picking their governments. Do we really want that?

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