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In 1970, Senator Ted Kennedy proposed amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to lower the voting age nationally. [12] On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections. [13] In his statement on signing the extension ...
The vast majority of countries and territories have a minimum voting age of 18-years-old as of October 2020. [10] According to data from the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, 205 countries and territories have a minimum voting age of 18 for national elections out of 237 countries and territories the organization has data on as of October 2020. [10]
As of February 2023, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reported that nearly 22 million of California’s 26.7 million eligible adults – 82% – were registered to vote.
After the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, the age of majority was lowered to 18 in most states. In most US states, one may obtain a driver's license, consent to sexual activity, and gain full-time employment at age 16 even though the age of majority is 18 in most states. [8]
Passed on July 1, 1971, it changed the legal voting age from 21 years to 18. A driving force behind it was the military draft that conscripted young men between the ages of 18-21 to fight in the ...
California is the latest target in a movement to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections. The option is on the ballot in this city.
California has, since the 1980s, allowed persons who are 17 to register to vote for an election where the election itself will occur on or after their 18th birthday, and several states including Indiana allow 17-year-olds to vote in a primary election provided they will be 18 by the general election.
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