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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]
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.
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 ...
We expect so much of 18-year-olds, denying them the vote would just be wrong. Preston Xanthopoulos: Call to change voting age driven by politics; let 18-year-olds vote Skip to main content
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 ...
Back in Wisconsin, voters will decide on more ballot measures later this year, including one in November that says only US citizens who are 18 years or older can vote – an effort to guarantee ...
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 ...