President Richard Nixon lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in April 1971.
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The arguement was to make the voting age stay at 18 years old.
By lowering the voting age
On July 7, 1971, the voting age became 18 when the 26th amendment to the US constitution was certified as having been ratified.
Britains become of age at 18. This would probably mean that they are allowed to vote at this age.
During the Vietnam War, many Vietnam veterans criticized the U.S. government for forcing them to go to war at the age of eighteen but not allowing them to vote until age 21. As a result, the U.S. Constitution was amended in 1971, lowering the minimum voting age to 18.
The election of 1968 was the last U.S. presidential election in which the minimum voting age was 21. On July 1, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, lowering the minimum voting age to 18.
Some of the results of the war, was ending the draft, creating an all volunteer military and lowering the US voting age from 21 to 18.
Minimum voting age is 18 in India.
There is no maximum age for voting in Australia.
The age of majority in New York changed from 21 to 18 in 1971. This was a result of lowering the voting age in the United States.
Well, that is not lowering the age, it is increasing the age.