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Brattleboro Union High School students register to vote during a voter drive at the school, Feb. 14, 2024, in Brattleboro, Vt. Sixteen and 17-year-olds in Brattleboro will get to vote in local ...
A Californian voter fills out a provisional ballot form while voting in the 2004 United States presidential election. In elections in the United States, a provisional ballot (called an affidavit ballot in New York) is used to record a vote when there are questions about a given voter's eligibility that must be resolved before the vote can count.
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.
16-year-olds may preregister [104] Florida: 16-year-olds may preregister [104] Georgia: 17.5-year-olds may preregister [104] Hawaii: 16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may register but not vote [104] Idaho: 18 years old by the election date [104] Illinois: 18 years old by the election date [104] Indiana: 18 years old by the election ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...