My Turn: Vote ‘no’ to lower voting age to 16 in Deerfield

My Turn: Vote ‘no’ to lower voting age to 16 in Deerfield

On April 28, at 7 p.m., attendees at the annual Deerfield Town Meeting will be asked to vote on an article to lower the voting age to 16 years old. This same article was defeated at last year’s annual Town Meeting so why try to have a second vote?

Last week, Minister Sira Rego announced that the draft of the new Youth Law—the first of democracy—includes the reduction of the voting age to 16 years (which must be done by means of a reform of the LOREG, the electoral law). Since its inauguration, that has been one of Rego’s main objectives, which defends that if you can work at 16 it is lawful for that age cohort to decide what your taxes are going to be. “Because they already work, they alr…

Spain Considers Lowering Voting Age to 16

Spain’s Children and Youth Ministry is pushing forward legislation that could lower the voting age to 16. The measure, pending to be approved by the government, would mean a transformation to Spain’s voting system, bringing it closer to other European countries such as Austria, where 16-year-olds are currently allowed to participate in elections. Germany and Malta have also introduced similar… Source

On 17 April, 33 mayors signed a forum at the initiative of Unicef France calling for a lower voting age of 16 for the municipal elections of 2026. A measure that would concern 1.6 million French. Among the signatories: Jeanne Barseghian.

The French left is once again pushing to lower the voting age, a move that, under the guise of “better taking into account the voices of young people,” should above all enable it to gain new voters. The article French left wants to lower the voting age. [Nathaniel Observatory] comes from the website Wszystko co końca.

On most occasions, between the ages of 16 and 18 there is no two years, there is a world. It is not the same adolescent effervescence as the newly opened youth. As the system is structured, reaching the age of 18 implies having had the right to form and that, which is still not a social elevator if you think exclusively about the educational field, supposes having started to make decisions about how we want to be and, broadening the look, in whi…