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There's also practical application and real-world effect to consider. Giving kids the vote wouldn't help the situation, and in fact wouldn't happen anyway, even if the last remaining legit party was in charge, here.
Now in theory, if you wanted to set up some kind of voting application test to see how well the potential voter was familiar with real facts & reality, allowing them to vote if they passed, then that might indeed be an argument for lowering the voting age. In fact, it almost would have saved democracy in the 2016 election, as I alluded to above.