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In 1970, Senator Ted Kennedy proposed amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to lower the voting age nationally. [12] On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections. [13] In his statement on signing the extension ...
Mitchell ruled that Congress had the right to regulate the minimum voting age in federal elections; however, it decided it could not regulate it at local and state level. The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution (passed and ratified in 1971) [117] prevents states from setting a voting age higher than 18. [118]
Demographics Poll taxes: Abolished 1964: Literacy tests abolished: Abolished 1965 for federal elections: 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
Presidential election turnout by state 1976–2020. Voter turnout in US elections is the total number of votes cast by the voting age population (VAP), or more recently, the voting eligible population (VEP), divided by the entire voting eligible population.
Poll Tax payment prohibited from being used as a condition for voting in federal elections by the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [citation needed] 1965. Protection of voter registration and voting for racial minorities, later applied to language minorities, is established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [12]
As more eligible Americans participate in our elections, our democracy becomes stronger.
The effort to lower the voting age started years ago. Rio Daims worked on the youth vote campaign in 2018 when she was 16. Now she's a 22-year-old college student studying political communication.
Additionally, the Court upheld the provision lowering the minimum voting age to 18 years in federal elections, but it held that Congress exceeded its power by lowering the voting age to 18 in state elections; this precipitated the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment the following year, which lowered the voting age in all elections from ...