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A legal voting age is the minimum age that a person is allowed to vote in a democratic process. For general elections around the world, the right to vote is restricted to adults, and most nations use 18 as their voting age, but for other countries voting age ranges between 16 and 21.
Mitchell (1970), the Supreme Court considered whether the voting-age provisions Congress added to the Voting Rights Act in 1970 were constitutional. The Court struck down the provisions that established 18 as the voting age in state and local elections. However, the Court upheld the provision establishing the voting age as 18 in federal elections.
Some states had already lowered the voting age: notably Georgia, Kentucky, and Hawaii, had already permitted voting by persons younger than twenty-one. The Twenty-sixth Amendment, ratified in 1971, prohibits federal and state laws which set a minimum voting age higher than 18 years.
For people subjected to a conservatorship, you can find more details about their voting rights in the California Secretary of State’s Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship webpage at ...
To vote in this state, you must be a citizen, 18 years or older on the day of the election, a resident of North Dakota, and be able to provide an eligible form of identification. Deadline to ...
Two cities in California lowered the voting age to 16 for school board seats, but those changes have not gone into effect. Silas Brubaker, a 17-year-old senior at Brattleboro Union High School ...
Many states require elected municipal officers to be over 18 years of age or be a registered voter in the city thereof. Montana requires mayors to be at least 21 years of age. As of November 2016, most U.S. cities with populations exceeding 200,000 required their mayor to be a registered voter in the city thereof or at least 18 years of age.
The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [1] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [2] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States , such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 3 ] however, young people also care about issues ...