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On March 2, 1971, Bayh's subcommittee and the House Judiciary Committee approved the proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18 for all elections. [33] On March 10, 1971, the Senate voted 94–0 in favor of proposing a constitutional amendment to guarantee the minimum voting age could not be higher than 18.
A legal voting age is the minimum age that a person is allowed to vote in a democratic process. ... 18: Changed from 15 to 18 in 2007, returned to 15 in 2009 and ...
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 ...
For example, if a country's age of majority is 18, but the legal drinking age is 21, then a 20 year old would still be considered a "minor" in situations involving buying or consuming alcohol. Another example is the age to consent to sexual activity , which in most of the cases in the world is under the age of majority.
The first election affected by this change of law was the Bridgwater by-election held on 13 March 1970 after the death of the sitting MP. [11] The next general election was on 18 June 1970. Case law subsequently established the right for undergraduate students to vote in the constituency of their university. [12] This followed an appeal to the ...
The move to lower the voting age has been given a fresh push by the activism of teenagers across the country after the Parkland high school shooting. Washington, D.C., may let 16-year-olds vote ...
The effort to lower the voting age started years ago. Rio Daims worked on the youth vote campaign in 2018 when she was 16. Now she's a 22-year-old college student studying political communication.
Utah changes wording of their law and restores voting rights to all people who have completed their prison sentence for a felony. [62] Rhode Island restores voting rights for people serving probation or parole for felonies. [59] 2007. Florida restores voting rights for most non-violent people with felony convictions. [59] 2009