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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.
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]
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]
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 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 ...
When Harold Wilson’s Labour government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1969, the UK became the first major democratic country to do so. And although the topic has come up at various ...
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.
The age of candidacy for elections in the United Kingdom was lowered from 21 to 18 in 2006, with the passing of the Electoral Administration Act 2006. [16] The Representation of the People Act 1983 was in part a consolidation act which repealed the 1969 act but restated many of its provisions.