Voting Age Resources
Research and Resources
- Promote Our Vote's Maryland Advocacy Toolkit includes a page on lowering the voting age.
- Our coverage of Hyattsville's decision to lower the voting age at the blog.
- Our coverage of Takoma Park's Historic Expansion of Suffrage at the blog.
- A Scottish study from 2014 finds that 16- and 17-year-old voters are just as political as older counterparts, and that there is no strong association with the voting intentions of their parents.
- The Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge released a report recommending youth voting.
- A study on civic education and voting indicates that youth engagement has a "trickle up" effect on voting habits of parents.
- An Austrian study from 2012 finds that the quality of 16- and 17-year-old citizens' choices were the same as older voters'.
- In Denmark, young voters voted more when they could vote sooner.
- A Rutgers study finds that 16- and 17-year-olds are both neurologically and socially mature enough to vote responsibly.
- Full employment, driving, taxation and other rites of adulthood begin at 16.
- This piece by Democratic Audit UK argues that while lowering the voting age is not a panacea for youth engagement, it is essential for democracy.
- Generation Citizen has produced a study analyzing the legal feasibility of municipal campaigns to lower the voting age, as well as a comprehensive white paper on the benefits of 16- and 17-year-old voting.
