Peter Levine, an associate dean and professor at Tufts University, argues that the voting age should be lowered to 16 or 17 to make sure teenagers get the chance to vote before they graduate from high school. Here's his case for the change:
I just want to get kids to vote the first time while they’re still in school. I don’t want to push the voting age way down. I just want them to vote before they turn 18, because then we can teach them to vote, teach them how the process works, and teach them to vote responsibly by, for example, getting up to speed on the issues before they vote...People respond pretty well when they’re actually encouraged to vote, when somebody tells them they should vote and when somebody gives them information, which is something that we can do in schools, but we are leaving a lot of people to go through life without actually being encouraged or shown their duty. [CBS Philly]
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