What would the cost of changing the voting age from 18 to 16 be?

I am doing a high school debate for Speech class and I need to include the cost of changing the legal voting age into my brief. Please don't answer if you don't know.What would the cost of changing the voting age from 18 to 16 be?I would not have a problem with it as long as the voter could pass a test so they could give specific reasons of logic on why to support their candidate Sadly, most votes can not.

The cost would be minimal, however in todays political world of red tape it would cost millions, if only to pen a bill to get the ball rolling. 'Ethical' lawyers would slow the process by saying %26quot;why stop at 16, what about the younger crowd, they have rights too%26quot; and the red tape gets longer %26amp; longer.
What would the cost of changing the voting age from 18 to 16 be?
The idea of a 'test' to see whether a voter has a logical reason to support a political candidate is absurd. That would open doors for discrimination against people with different political agendas to the 'norm'. Anyone who would even think to propose such a test is too ignorant to pass their own.

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What would the cost of changing the voting age from 18 to 16 be?
Can we draft 16 year olds too? Kick them out of the house, work for a living, pay rent, take total responsible for their lives? Most of them can't even make a bed let alone decide intelligently who will run this country.
Cost is the least of the problems with that idea!
Lillian you read my mind.
Legally the only reason the voting age was moved from 21 to 18 was because 18 was the draft age. It was considered unethical to draft someone who could not vote on their representation.



There are no such grounds to allow anyone to vote at 16.
No one knows the correct answer to your question

The variables involved to draft legislation to change the legal voting age would put the total cost at least into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The cost of the salaries of the legislators would be in the millions.

So too the cost in other areas such as the ones that responder Lillian pointed out imo, a SEEMINGLY negative and harsh manner.

There are many teens that when %26quot;properly%26quot; taught and trained, can be and ARE some very responsible human beings and citizens.

The ones that aren't at least have the excuse of youth.

What鈥檚 the excuse of the 18 and above that are irresponsible and lacking in the good qualities and characteristics of human beings and citizens?

Because of physical development, I would leave the legal age for voting at 18.

Raging hormones throughout puberty can and does cause many to make some very irrational decisions in all areas of their life.

Generally, by the age of 18 one has a better control of their impulses and desires and can make better-informed decisions.
the main problem is that they and the ages up to 25 %26amp; 30 are totally uninformed and get their news from the internet websites, Daily Kos, Huffington blogs and the comedy channel. Just rear the answers to the questions on this site to find out just how little 99% know about national %26amp; world problems.