Voting age
Debate on lowering the voting age to 16
During the 2000s several proposals for a reduced voting age were put forward in U.S. states, including California, Florida and Alaska, but none were successful. In Oregon, Senate Joint Resolution 22 has been introduced to reduce the voting age from 18 to 16. Also in British Columbia, Canada in November 25th of 2018, Mira Blakely, started a Vote16 campaign of her own and now has unanimously the UBCM and an NDP convention and now is only waiting for it to be brought up in the legislative assembly by the NDP and for it to pass there. A national reduction was proposed in 2005 in Canada and in the Australian state of New South Wales, but these proposals were not adopted. In May 2009, Danish Member of Parliament Mogens Jensen presented an initiative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to lower the voting age in Europe to 16.
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