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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.
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?
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.
Today, any voter may vote absentee. In 2004, State Sen. John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara) proposed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship that would give 14-year-olds a quarter vote, 16-year-olds a half vote, and 17-year-olds a full vote. [14] [15]
Measure VY, also called Vote 16, was an unsuccessful 2022 ballot initiative in Culver City, California, that sought to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections. The election was the latest in a string of local ballot measures, often supported by a movement called "Vote 16", although the lowered voting age remains rare in the United ...
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 ...
People like 16- and 17-year-olds. Loya and Quintana spent this past November helping register 120 of their peers at Capital ... Opinion split on legislation that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds ...
Parents have not been shown to have influence over youth voting behavior in studies of countries where the vote has been given to 16-year-olds, just as this fear didn't manifest when women were given the right to vote. [8] [13] Likewise, peer pressure has been shown to have no greater influence on teens than on adults when it comes to voting. [14]