The Alliance Party has endorsed growing demands to allow 16 and 17-year olds in NI to participate in elections ...
There will be two constitutional amendments on Iowans’ ballots this fall. One of them seeks to guarantee the right for young ...
His proposal not only calls for the voting age to be lowered, but for political education to be taught in schools. Samah (L), Nathan and Jess (R) want to lower the voting age "The young people ...
The prime minister has previously indicated that he was keen to lower the voting age to 16 – no taxation without representation, and all that – but that was before the wider public decided it ...
Less than 10 percent of registered voters in College Park are participating in local elections, according to city documents.
Early voting had been expected ... facility that accepts mail ballots. In 14 states, voters must have an excuse to vote by mail, ranging from illness, age, work hours or if a voter is out of ...
"A lot of these arguments that are being made against 16 year olds were made against 18 year olds before the voting age was lowered or against women before they were given the vote," she continued.
There are some political trends that show up in the data. Of the 14 states that don't offer mail voting to all voters, for instance, 12 have Republican-led legislatures. But maybe the more ...
Harold Wilson's government lowered the voting age to 18 in 1969 It is 50 years since Harold Wilson's government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Many now want the age at which people can vote ...
They also conclude that "the point of equal opportunity for minority voters to elect the representative of their choice generally occurs in districts with less than 50% black voting-age population." ...
The 26th Amendment to the US Constitution lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. That was ratified 53 years ago, but Iowa’s state constitution doesn’t reflect that. State Rep. Adam Zabner of ...