If all ages are influenced by misinformation, should there be any age limits on voting?

I think that there should still be an age limit on voting because young children are some of the most likely to be misinformed. This is because children at this age typically have less access to trusted sources of information, as they may not have devices to access the internet. This means that their primary source of informaton would be oral. This information may be biased, wrong or altered. Because of this, they do not have enough information to form their point of view yet.

Despite this, it does not mean they are the only ones affected by this. Everyone is liable to being misinformed, wether it is because of something they have seen online or something someone else told them. In one of the videos we have seen, it says that we are more likely to react to posts or news that make us feel a strong emotion, typically neagative. Also our brains also associate "familarity with accuracy". So essentially what I'm tryng to say is that if you have access to social media or news sources, you can always be misinformed, but you are more likely if you are younger since you may find it harder to stop and think, "Does this sound right?".

Another point I want to make is this: age is only a number that counts how old your body is, not how old your brain is. Mental age is crucial when people make descions, and with something like voting, it plays the most vital role. For example, someone may be 13 years old, but they might think like those who are 16 or 17 year old. It can also be the other way round, if someone is 12 but thinks like a 10 year old.

The reason I mentioned this is because different age groups have different priorities. Adults worry more about things like work and bills, while children mostly worry more about friendships and school. Both are important, but they affect people differently. An adult may still care about friendships, but no as much as they would about work. A child may care about their future, but not like they care about school. Therefore this means that young people may not understand or relate to the things discussed by the politcal parties becasue the majority of people voting will be adults, consequently meaning that they are the targeted ones, and their problems are the ones being discussed. These problems will not affect children as much, so they may vote based on trivial things like how nice the logo looks.

All of this shows that there needs to be an age limit on voting: younger children are not "fit" to vote yet. Lowering the voting age to 16 was the right move because it allows the people aged 16-17 to use the information they have gathered in situations that affect them.