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While some South American countries (Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador) lower their voting age to 16, they also have compulsory voting starting at 18, making it difficult to study turnout effects from the lower voting age. Indonesia provides a potential case-study for non-western democracies, though they have only lowered their voting age to 17. [27]
Senator Harley Kilgore began advocating for a lowered voting age in 1941 in the 77th Congress. [5] Despite the support of fellow senators, representatives, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Congress failed to pass any national change. However, public interest in lowering the voting age became a topic of interest at the local level.
San Francisco may soon become the first major American city to lower its voting age to 16. Should the rest of the country follow suit?
As more eligible Americans participate in our elections, our democracy becomes stronger.
Adults between 18 and 24 have continuously posted the lowest voter turnout rate of all age groups over the past six decades, with turnout wavering between 30-50% in all presidential elections ...
They also aimed to lower the voting age for elections to the German parliament. However, this would need a change of the constitution, which was blocked by the opposition CDU. [61] Seven of the 16 states have also lowered their voting age for state elections and 11 of the 16 have lowered it for local elections.
When Harold Wilson’s Labour government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1969, the UK became the first major democratic country to do so. And although the topic has come up at various ...
They calculate that Demeny voting in Japan would increase the parent voting bloc from 24% to 37% and lower the over-55-year-old voter-bloc from 43% to 35%. [ 15 ] Stefan Olsson [ 16 ] argues that "the delegation of the children's right to vote is not any stranger than when adults delegate political authority to their elected representative.