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Originally Posted by tsugomaru

The US government should be more flexible on the whole age issue for voting. If you've taken a government course in high school, you should be allowed to vote despite your age. More than likely, the kids who are taking government will be aware and knowledgeable about the election than your average person. Why alienate an entire intelligent group of people just because they aren't old enough or supposedly not mature enough?

~Tsugomaru

This may be slightly offtopic, but I agree completely. I don't think that the government realizes that people like me know more about the election than, say, 90-95 % of the American population. I can say with certainty that I know more about it than my parents do, and I find it interesting to say this because I'm not even American. Yet, despite all of this, they alienate a collective, and ironically one that probably has a higher percentage of knowledge about the election than adults do. Many use the excuse, "well a lot of teenagers don't know or care about the election", but I can return the argument by saying that adults don't either. For example, in Canada, only 1/3 of adults actually vote.