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On March 2, 1971, Bayh's subcommittee and the House Judiciary Committee approved the proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18 for all elections. [33] On March 10, 1971, the Senate voted 94–0 in favor of proposing a constitutional amendment to guarantee the minimum voting age could not be higher than 18.
Elections in California are held to fill various local, ... Minimum voting age: 18: Preregistration age: 16: Felon voting status: Allowed to vote upon release: Voter ...
A legal voting age is the minimum age that a person is allowed to vote in a democratic process. For general elections around the world, the right to vote is restricted to adults, and most nations use 18 as their voting age, but for other countries voting age ranges between 16 and 21.
For people subjected to a conservatorship, you can find more details about their voting rights in the California Secretary of State’s Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship webpage at ...
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.
As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in California.
Some states had already lowered the voting age: notably Georgia, Kentucky, and Hawaii, had already permitted voting by persons younger than twenty-one. The Twenty-sixth Amendment, ratified in 1971, prohibits federal and state laws which set a minimum voting age higher than 18 years.
Across the country, a few small cities have made it possible for young people to cast votes in local elections. The first place in California to authorize youth suffrage was Berkeley, where in ...