But why should they? Surely ... In 2011, Austria became the first European country to lower the voting age to 16. This caused political interest among young Austrians to increase as they had ...

Those were the words of Sir Keir Starmer last May making the case for 16 and 17-year-olds to be ... would reap the electoral rewards of a lower voting age. In a poll by the More in Common think ...

At the same time, many of the same people are arguing for lowering the voting age to 16 — and possibly ... If you can vote at 16, should you be drafted at 16? Or should that be raised to 21 ...

Should the voting age be lowered to 16 years old in the UK? You can have your say by submitting your opinion in our poll above. GMB’s poll generated a discussion on X, formerly Twitter ...

According to one representative, the latter should be allowed to vote ... Operations Committee on Monday morning to convince other legislators to lower the legal voting age to 16. No action will be ...

Firstly, a main argument for why the voting age should be lowered to 16 is that 16 year-olds can pay taxes and work. If a 16 year-old is able to have a job, and therefore pay tax, why should they ...

Therefore, we will propose setting the minimum voting age at 16." Tushar also mentioned that while the Constitution Reform Commission has proposed lowering the minimum age for parliamentary ...

Some cities in Prince George’s County, such as Hyattsville, Greenbelt and Riverdale Park, have already adopted a lower voting ...

Glarus is the only other canton to have accepted youth suffrage when it reduced the minimum voting age from 18 to 16 in 2007 ... Because the lowered voting age would result in a change to the ...

Edmonton's youth council is pushing the province to lower the municipal voting age to 16, a change its says would ... and learn about government in school, they should have a greater say in ...

Lowering the voting age to 16 has delivered a mixed response among the public. A bill currently going through the Senedd would see it drop from 18 at the assembly election in 2021. Scotland made ...