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Lower the Voting Age for Local Elections
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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.
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