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In 1946 Czechoslovakia became the first state to reduce the voting age to 18 years, [2] and by 1968 a total of 17 countries had lowered their voting age, of which 8 were in Latin America, and 8 were communist countries. [3] Australia, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland had lowered their voting age to 20 by the end of the 1960s. [4]
In 1963, the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, in its report to President Lyndon Johnson, encouraged lowering the voting age. Johnson proposed an immediate national grant of the right to vote to 18-year-olds on May 29, 1968. [ 8 ]
The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. In the election of 1964, incumbent Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. presidential election history over Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
The 1968 United States elections were held on November 5, and elected members of the 91st United States Congress. The election took place during the Vietnam War , in the same year as the Tet Offensive , the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. , the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy , and the protests of 1968 .
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]
The Republic National Committee said 55 of Michigan's 83 counties have more registered voters than adults over the age of 18. ... the estimated voting age population was 1,354,533 and the number ...
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the ... and expanding the right to vote to draft-age soldiers by lowering the voting age from 21 to ...