Perfect Persuasive Writing 4

In Writing, we have been doing persuasive writing this term and we were given a task if we wanted New Zealand children to be able to vote and I said no. You will find out soon if you read my persuasive writing.

NZ children shouldn’t be able to vote

Hi, I’m Dylan, do you think children should be able to vote in elections? Because I don’t and I am going to tell you why.

Firstly, most kids would just vote for the current Prime Minister or if they are really young they could just vote for the party with their favourite colour or point out a random politician they like the look of.

Secondly, a lot more parties would be made so they could be in parliament with hooks like giving out sweets to every child in New Zealand. This could be a waste of our taxpayer’s money and time.  We already have enough political parties to choose between.

Thirdly, more paper would be used because some people don’t have devices and a lot of trees will have to be used to send voting papers out to most people in New Zealand.

Next, kids don’t know much about politics, so they could just vote for the same people as their parents. Or if there is someone they know in the elections they could vote for them. This is not a well-educated decision.

Now, some kids could just scribble a person’s name out and write their own in that space. Or if they get the paper version then they could just tick them all.

If kids could vote there should be an age limit of at least 10 or 11. At that age, you should be expected to be sensible.

After this do you think children should be able to vote? Because I don’t.