Congress and the states moved quickly to pass the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to eighteen, because they
A) recognized the justice of the student antiwar and civil rights movements.
B) knew that student voter turnout would be low.
C) expected the new voters to change the political balance of power drastically.
D) hoped to channel student energy away from demonstrations and toward more conventional forms of participation.
E) realized the unfairness of the discrepancy between the military draft age and the voting age.
D
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