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
Answer: C
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