Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian. Cherâs father, John Paul Sarkisian, was born in California, to Armenian parents; he worked as a truck driver. Cherâs mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), a singer, songwriter, actress, and model, is of English and German, with more distant Irish, Dutch, and French, descent.
At that time a voting age of 16 was proposed by the Green Party, but was not adopted. The voting age for municipal elections in some states was lowered to 16 in the early years of the 2000s. Three states had made the reduction by 2003 (Burgenland, Carinthia and Styria), and in May 2003 Vienna became the fourth.he 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevents states from denying suffrage to 18-year-olds, but does not prevent states from establishing a lower voting age. Several states (Georgia, Kentucky) already allowed 18 year olds to vote prior to passage of the 26th amendment.
In elections of the National Assembly, every South African citizen who is 18 or older may vote, including (from the 2014 election) those resident outside South Africa. In elections of a provincial legislature or municipal council, only those resident within the province or municipality may vote.he act was challenged on the basis that it had not been passed with a two-thirds majority in a joint sitting, as required by the South Africa Act, and in 1952 the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court declared it to be invalid.