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If you know a 16- or 17-year-old teenager, they might be able to register to vote and participate in this year’s elections. ... including 8 million youth who will have newly reached voting age ...
Minimum voting age: 18: Preregistration age: 16: Felon voting status: ... In California a vote on a measure referred to voters by the legislature is a mandatory ...
The reduction of the voting age to 16 in the United Kingdom was first given serious consideration in 1999, when the House of Commons considered in Committee an amendment proposed by Simon Hughes to the Representation of the People Bill. [72] This was the first time the reduction of a voting age below 18 had ever been put to a vote in the ...
Mitchell (1970), the Supreme Court considered whether the voting-age provisions Congress added to the Voting Rights Act in 1970 were constitutional. The Court struck down the provisions that established 18 as the voting age in state and local elections. However, the Court upheld the provision establishing the voting age as 18 in federal elections.
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.
In the Bay Area, voters in Albany will vote Tuesday on a measure to grant suffrage to 16- and 17-year-olds. In Southern California, Culver City voters narrowly defeated a similar measure in 2022 ...
Minimum voting age: 18 in most jurisdictions: Preregistration age: 16 in 41 states and D.C.; 17 in 4 states; 17.5 or older in 4 states ... California has, since the ...
Two cities in California lowered the voting age to 16 for school board seats, but those changes have not gone into effect. Silas Brubaker, a 17-year-old senior at Brattleboro Union High School ...