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Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing Democracy. 2022. ISBN 978-1-350-19630-8. Caplan, Sheri J. Old Enough: How 18-Year-Olds Won the Vote & Why it Matters. Heath Hen, 2020. ISBN 978-1-7354-9300-8. John B. Holbein and D. Sunshine Hillygus. 2020. Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action. Cambridge University Press.
Training Wheels for Citizenship was a youth suffrage proposal by California Democratic state senator John Vasconcellos to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote, with 18-year-olds continuing to have a full vote as under the current system. It would have applied only in state elections.
The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [1] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [2] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States , such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 3 ] however, young people also care about issues ...
California is the latest target in a movement to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections. The option is on the ballot in this city.
The move to lower the voting age has been given a fresh push by the activism of teenagers across the country after the Parkland high school shooting. Washington, D.C., may let 16-year-olds vote ...
A Vermont town has acted on the notion that young voters offer hope for the future, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote next week in local elections. Last year the Democratic-controlled ...
As of the aforementioned date, 12 countries or territories have a minimum voting age of less than 18, with 3 countries or territories at 17-years-old, and 9 countries or territories at 16-years-old. [10] 16-years-old is the lowest minimum age globally for national elections, while the highest is 25-years-old which is only the case in the United ...
Jan. 30—Standing outside a crowded classroom at Capital High School, Monica Loya, 19, and Maxamillano Quintana, 18, say issues like gender identity, climate change and immigration might rise to ...