re: I have started to believe, the age to vote should be bumped up

Go back to older times when in order to be registered to vote, you had to verify a few things and own property in a an area or be leasing a place. Now some places you can register to vote online with little checks and balances. A nefarious individual could register a few names like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and request an absentee ballot by mail and vote without seeing an ID.