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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.
Canada lowered its federal voting age from 21 to 18 in 1970. [41] [42] Most Canadian provinces soon followed suit, though several initially lowered their vote age to 19. It wasn't until 1992 when the last province, British Columbia, lowered its voting age to 18. [43] A further reduction to 16 was proposed federally in 2005, but was not adopted.
The 1972 election was the first since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, further expanding the electorate. Nixon and his vice president Spiro Agnew both resigned from office within two years of the election. Agnew resigned due to a bribery scandal in October 1973, and Nixon resigned in the face ...
The voting process has two steps. An eligible voter – a U.S. citizen over the age of 18 [20] – must first register to vote and then commit the act of voting. The voting process is regulated by each state individually and therefore varies from state to state. [21] The process of registering to vote is different depending on the state. [21]
The decision precipitated the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment the following year, which lowered the voting age in all elections to 18. [ 4 ] : 60 1975
Voting in the 1972 Presidential Primary Election in Birmingham, Alabama. 1970. Alaska ends the use of literacy tests. [48] Native Americans who live on reservations in Colorado are first allowed to vote in the state. [54] 1971. Adults aged 18 through 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Hillary's workload of registering voters was large due to the 1972 presidential election being the first since the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. Hillary was tasked with registering black and Hispanic voters in South Texas on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.
Additionally, the Court upheld the provision lowering the minimum voting age to 18 years in federal elections, but it held that Congress exceeded its power by lowering the voting age to 18 in state elections; this precipitated the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment the following year, which lowered the voting age in all elections from ...