Seminar Reflection

In today's seminar, I contributed as much as I could. I gave my input to the best of my ability. To prepare for the seminar I read the article at least three times. I could have done a better job preparing by printing out the article and annotating it. Some of the things that I brought up were some reasons on why lowering or raising the voting age would be a good or bad thing. Then I mentioned how changing it or not would benefit our country.

I agreed with Mike's opinion because he thought that we would go through all of this uneccessary debating over changing the voting age to sixteen when the outcome would just be a dissapointment. Only about five percent would actually go through the trouble to vote and the other roughly 95 percent would even vote. I don't remember any certain individual wanting to change the voting to thirteen but those that did I disagree with because it's uneccessary and won't have that much of a subsantial difference as hoped.

I think that the most interesting point made today was one that was made by Wilson. He said that he believes that if sixteen and seventeen year olds really want to be active voters, then they should only be allowed to vote in the primary's. That way, they still have somewhat of a say and their voice is heard. I think that's brilliant.