It is right and a "right" to vote
I landed in the first batch of voters turned loose on the ballot box following the lowering of the voting age to 18.
Amendment 26, ratified in 1971, got me my first vote at age 20.
I recall spirited debates in high school classes in the 1970s about the proposed change from age 21 to 18. I recall a lot of classmates talking excitedly about getting the right to vote. They believed and I believed that a single vote could make a difference in a national election, even though mathematicians tell us otherwise.
A Nonpartisan Appeal to Vote
“So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times…We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves.”—Benjamin Franklin
“Revolutionize through the ballot-box, and restore the government once more to the affection and hearts of men, by making it express, as it was intended to do, the highest spirit of justice and liberty.”—Abraham Lincoln
