Drinking Age and Voting

18-24 years are one of the largest blocks of voters, yet consistently they have one of the lowest voter turnouts. All sorts of excuses are used for reasons why they don’t vote. However, this year there is something big that has the potential to raise their voter turnout drastically. College campuses around the US are banning together, trying to have the legal drinking age lowered once again to 21. The presidents of Universities such as Harvard and Ohio state, have seen that excessive beinge drinking and students having to sneak around to drink are severely hurting college students both physically and legally, and these problems are dividing campuses everywhere. Lowering the drinking age, many argue would make younger students see that drinking is not something you should have to sneak around to do, and once you can do it, no longer is such a big deal/its really not that cool of a privilege, and less kids will hopefully rebel by doing so.

Think about when you were 18 (you may still be for that matter). I’m willing to beat you had more than a couple of alcoholic beverages as a part of an innocent night of fun. However, you are not really innocent in all accounts; you are breaking the law...which many 18-20 year olds would consider ridiculous. If they are old enough to vote why are the not considered responsible enough to drink? My motion graphic will help show that this demographic has the right to speak out and make a positive change which will directly effect them.

I plan on using a for the first few screens, alternating red and blue circular shapes flashing in different places on the screen to represent police. Then the words “these lights are all to familiar to many 18-20 year-olds...but they don’t have to be” As the lights morph into a bottle under which the words “the legal drinking age is 21.” The bottle then morphs, into a voting ballot which will read “yet the legal voting age is 18.” The ballot will split into two heads of college looking students. Under them their ages will slowly appear along with the words “they are both responsible enough to vote, yet only the one on the left can drink...” then the heads will morph again into the words “you have the vote, use it. Make a change. “ and the final screen “Good design makes choices clear” will appear.