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.
Subsequently, Oregon and Texas challenged the law in court, and the case came before the Supreme Court in 1970 as Oregon v. Mitchell. By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21 including Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii.