HB7

HB7 Civil Rights, Lowering the Voting Age - Nate, Ian

IPhillips and NBranscom


 * Sponsors-** IPhillips from Virginia, and NBranscom from New Jersey


 * issue and title-** Our Youth Deserves to Vote Too!

**purpose-** Citizens who are at least the age of seventeen should be allowed to vote. Our issue is about lowering the voting age because I believe that we need to know more about what the youth of America thinks about our government’s laws and officials.


 * Eligibility-** Our bill will apply to all American citizens who are at the age of seventeen and would like to vote.


 * terms and benefits**-We would like for all people of the age of seventeen to be able to vote that way it takes stress off their lives. I mean take stress off because at the age of eighteen most people are just finishing high school so they are looking for a job and trying to move into a college, it is a tough age. We would like to take just a bit of stress off of eighteen year olds by making them not have to worry about learning how to vote because they would have learned one year earlier. If we do indeed lower the voting age most seventeen year olds will start taking more responsibilities. Our bill will be done by getting sponsors to address and approve the bill then we will present the bill to the jury showing them how many citizens we have behind us as some of our support needed for the bill to be approved. And with all this support we will have an edge that will make the government want to approve the bill because a lot of people think it is a good idea, and after all it is a democracy so the government has to obey the people.


 * Final impact**: it will not cost very much, it is almost free except that 17 year olds will have to pay taxes.

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