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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.
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 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 ...
While still barred from voting on higher-profile races, 16- and 17-year-olds living in Oakland and Berkeley will be able to cast ballots in upcoming school board elections.
A common slogan of proponents of lowering the voting age was "old enough to fight, old enough to vote". [2] Determined to get around inaction on the issue, congressional allies included a provision for the 18-year-old vote in a 1970 bill that extended the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court subsequently held in the case of Oregon v.
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 ...
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 party leader said anyone paying tax should ‘have a say’ in how their money is spent as he was questioned about the commitment on Saturday.