Voting gives people the opportunity to change things for the better. The people who are voted in make the decisions of which army bases to add or close. They have the ability to create new jobs and change political policies that effect our lives. Some of the policies they make seem to have little or no effect on us individually, but other things have a direct effect on us such as policies concerning taxes. An increase in young people voting would also change some of the major issues discussed at debates since their major concerns are different than older people's.
Young people have the power to change the course of an election and history by voting.
The person they elect to the Presidency has the ability to start wars, which may not only change the future of the United States, but the world. More people voting will truly make the United States a country of the people, not just the few who vote. The reason why young people don't vote is so obvious that it can be found in the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers, progressive and tolerant though they were, saw fit to cite age as the only limitation to holding a federal elected office. In a document that rightly stands as a model for modern liberal democracy, neither race nor gender nor religion nor creed were mentioned as being relevant to the qualifications of a representative.