Lowering the Voting Age to 18 in 1971 Reflected ______

question 66

Multiple Choice

Lowering the voting age to 18 in 1971 reflected ______.

• A) Supreme Court decisions that the drinking age and the voting age needed to be the same
• B) a deep desire among political reformers to increase electoral turnout
• C) political needs provoked by the Vietnam War as youth argued if they were old enough to die, they were old enough to vote
• D) regulations issued by the Department of Justice following the passage of the Voting Rights Act that any discriminatory barriers in elections needed to be removed

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