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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.
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.
Demographics Poll taxes: Abolished 1964: Literacy tests abolished: Abolished 1965 for federal elections: Minimum voting age: 18 in most jurisdictions: Preregistration age: 16 in 41 states and D.C.; 17 in 4 states; 17.5 or older in 4 states
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.
This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. Contents 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1980s
“Gen Z youth alone will make up over 40 million potential voters – including 8 million youth who will have newly reached voting age since 2022 – making up nearly one-fifth of the American ...
Voting rights were further incorporated into the Constitution in the Nineteenth Amendment (voting rights for women, effective 1920), the Twenty-fourth Amendment (prohibiting poll taxes in federal elections, effective 1964) and the Twenty-sixth Amendment (lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, effective 1971).
SCDMV denied opportunities to register 17,000 residents who were 17 years old but will have reached the legal voting age of 18 by Election Day in 2024, the ACLU said.