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| | Youth Vote News |
 | | As cities, states, Congress and the international community are being asked to consider lowering the voting age, a variety of voices are strongly for or against its approval. | | | Anchorage, Alaska, advocates were almost successful, but missed by one vote in the Anchorage Assembly to lower the voting age to 16 in city elections. | | | In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city council voted to lower the voting age for local elections to 17, now pending legislature approval. |
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http://www.youthvote.org/news/newsdetail.cfm?newsid=363
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| | Suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the United Kingdom, peers who are members of the House of Lords (all up until reforms in 1999) are also excluded from voting in general elections. | | | Despite the best of universal suffrage, all modern democracies require voters to meet age qualifications to vote and deny the right to vote to individuals below the voting age. | | | It may be surprising that in the US citizens technically lack a constitutional right to vote. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: City Council Moves To Lower Voting Age |
| | By an 8-1 vote, the council approved a petition to the state legislature asking for permission to lower the voting age for city council and school committee elections. | | | She also said allowing 17-year-olds to vote would give more minority residents a voice in local politics by enfranchising the children of immigrants who are ineligible to vote. | | | Student voting activity would encourage parents to become more aware of city politics and vote in city elections, said Simmons, who had advocated the measure last year as a member of the Cambridge School Committee. |
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=180754
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| | Democrat seeks to lower voting age - The Washington Times: Metropolitan |
| | The last time the voting age became a national issue was in 1971, when the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified, lowering the age from 21 to 18. | | | BALTIMORE — A city lawmaker says she will help 16-year-olds secure the right to vote, a plan that would make the teens the youngest voters in the nation and increase the number of registered voters in the Democratic Party. | | | Council President Sheila Dixon, a Democrat, made the promise as part of her re-election campaign for the Sept. 9 primary, in a city that already has an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters and has not elected a Republican mayor since 1967. |
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http://washtimes.com/metro/20030826-104300-8335r.htm
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| | National Youth Rights Association - Voting Age |
| | This article makes the case that youth are too dumb and immature to vote, and the age should be raised to 30. | | | CSAE's President, Curtis Gans is the leading opponent to lowering the voting age, describing it as a 'terminally dumb' idea. | | | Keep up to date on developments in the movement to lower the voting age, both in the United States and abroad. |
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http://www.youthrights.org/votingage.shtml
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| | Youth in Cambridge Win Battle over Vote |
| | Seventeen-year-old Cambridge residents would be eligible to vote for City Council and School Committee and on local ballot questions if the legislature enacts the petition, which would make Cambridge the first American municipality to allow citizens younger than the age of 18 to vote. | | | Student organizers said that the intent of their efforts was to allow high-school seniors to vote at least once before leaving town for college. | | | The Cambridge City Council will petition the Massachusetts legislature to lower the voting age to 17 in city elections. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N15/15vote.15n.html
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| | lowering the voting age [wantingseed] |
| | I think it is absolutley absurd to let 14 year olds vote I mean only 14% of 18 - 24 year olds voted when the voting age was dropped from 21 - 18 in 1971 and in 2000 that percent droped to 8%. | | | My personal opinion is to keep the voting age at 18 or even raise it to 21. | | | I believe that for the youth, voting rights would be gradual. |
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http://wantingseed.com/weblog/2003/05/12/lowering_the_voting_age.php
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| | AOL News - Should Kids Get to Vote? |
| | Critics of a younger voting age, however, say teens are not ready for democracy, and their participation as voters would not improve the electoral process. | | | Typically, youth voting rights supporters in the United States advocate lowering the voting age by a couple of years. | | | Under the proposal, which would immediately increase the number of potential voters by 13.8 million, parents would vote on behalf of their children until they are 12, when the children could decide whether to allow their parents to vote for them. |
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http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20030917112009990010
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Youths Urge Lowering of City Voting Age |
| | The students said that voting in high school would also combat youth voter apathy while allowing them to participate in local government before leaving the city for college or careers. | | | In order to approve the measure, the majority of the council will have to pass a home rule petition that would then have to be approved by the Massachusetts state legislature. | | | The council passed a similar home rule petition last November to allow non-citizen immigrants with children in Cambridge schools to vote in School Committee elections. |
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=104317
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| | Lowering the Voting Age: A Tough Sell Connect for Kids |
| | For the young Californians, it was the second time in a year that adult politicians had torpedoed their chances of winning the right to vote before the age of 18. | | | At S.L.V.A. (Society for a Lowered Voting Age) we believe that it's the younger generation's right to be able to vote. | | | Reynolds was confident in the days leading up to the May 24 council vote. |
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http://www.connectforkids.org/node/3140
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Suffrage |
| | 18 years of age, universal and compulsory (married); 21 years of age, universal and compulsory (single) | | | 18 years of age; universal (except in senatorial elections, where minimum age is 25) | | | 18 years of age; universal; island residents are US citizens but do not vote in US presidential elections |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2123.html
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| | Should the Voting Age Be Lowered? Timothy Noah |
| | The Cambridge, Mass., City Council plans to hold a hearing on Nov. 16 in which it will consider lowering the voting age to 16 for City Council and school committee races; if the measure clears the City Council, it will be forwarded to the Statehouse as a home-rule petition. | | | John Anderson, the 1980 independent presidential candidate, who is currently teaching constitutional law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been pushing to lower the voting age for several years. | | | John Barry, father of the American Navy, and waving magic-markered posterboard signs that said things like "Lower the Voting Age" and "Democracy = Voting." Korknay-Palicz argued to Chatterbox that lowering the voting age would stimulate greater participation among those over 18. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/1006439
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| | Extending the voting age downward The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | It has been 33 years since the voting age was lowered to 18 on the notion that anyone old enough to die for his country should be able to vote for it. | | | Tom Patterson, the head of the Vanishing Voter Project, thinks that lowering the voting age "would change the atmosphere around schools. | | | For that matter, Britain is poised to give voting rights to 16-year-olds. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040508/news_1e8goodman.html
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| | Spectrum 2005 |
| | The bill would lower the voting age to 16 in municipal elections, which include those for mayor, controller, borough presidents and city council members. | | | It culminated in the 26th Amendment, ratified in July 1971, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. | | | A push mounts to lower the voting age |
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http://journalism.nyu.edu/ujw/2005/ujvote.htm
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| | ASFAR: Voting Age |
| | Hearing to lower the voting age to 16 in Cambridge, MA fails with a 6-3 vote - June 4, 2001 | | | Cambridge city council votes to lower voting age to 17! | | | Rally to lower the voting age to 16 in Anchorage, Alaska! |
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http://asfar.org/voting
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| | National Youth Rights Association - 2005 NYRA News |
| | Fairfield hopes to attempt registering youth to vote to protest the voting age, and Johnstown hopes to mount a statewide campaign to lower the drinking age. | | | The chapter's efforts coincided with a bill proposed by State Senator John Vasconcellos to lower the state's voting age to 16. | | | It was not long ago that California State Senator John Vasconcellos sponsored a bill to lower the voting age. |
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http://www.youthrights.org/nyranews2005.shtml
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| | The Epoch Times Is 16 Old Enough to Vote? |
| | Canada’s Minister responsible for democratic reform, Mauril Belanger, argues that “no evidence suggests that voting age should be lowered.” On the contrary, he says, “studies have shown that it could have the opposite impact on youth voter turn out and lead to the expansion of the pool of non-voters.” | | | 17-year-old Paul Chernoff supports the idea to lower the voting age, adding that if voter education were integrated in the school curriculum, young people would be more inclined to vote. | | | Filip Palda, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, says that a lowered voting age could potentially “dilute the value of our vote”. |
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http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-2-20/26550.html
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| | Invision Power Services > Should the voting age be lowered to 16? |
| | Incidently, my 16 year old brother would love to vote, is just as clued-up as me, but wouldn't lower the voting age himself, as he doesn't think most people his age are ready. | | | Campaigners have demanded a pre-election pledge from the three main parties to lower the voting age to 16 by the next general election. | | | We only have 57% of the electorate vote last general election. |
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http://forums.invisionpower.com/lofiversion/index.php/t168720.html
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| | CBC News: Court rejects teens' appeal to lower voting age |
| | On Thursday, three judges with the Alberta Court of Appeal put another damper on their fight when they upheld an earlier judgment that a youth's right to vote is not guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | | | CBC News: Court rejects teens' appeal to lower voting age | | | Court rejects teens' appeal to lower voting age |
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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/14/canada/teenvote_20040514
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| | Youth Suffrage - Lowering the Voting Age |
| | A brief history of the movement to lower the national voting age from 21 to 18. | | | Examines the reasons for lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. | | | Explores legislation and initiatives in 10 states aimed at lowering the voting age. |
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http://www.freechild.org/SNAYR/suffrage.htm
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| | The Age of E-Voting - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com |
| | The decryption process involves techniques to ensure that the votes counted are the same ones the voters saw in the booth. | | | "Confidence in the voting system has been shaken in the U.S.," says Michael Chevallier, of the Geneva State Chancellor's office, which is heading up e-voting efforts in Switzerland. | | | The most-talked-about scheme was conceived in the early 1990s by a graduate student named Rebecca Mercuri (now at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) It's called verified voting, and it's a kind of truth serum for touch-screen systems. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4616365
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| | Halfbakery: Voting Age: Zero |
| | From the 0-5 age range, I think the top two were Abortion and Apartheid in that order. | | | One, when I was born, my dad would have voted Republican on my behalf. | | | Why don't we just lower the voting age to zero (birth)? |
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http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Voting_20Age_3a_20Zero
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| | The New Paltz Oracle - NYRA Strives to Lower Voting Age |
| | NYRA is getting its message across as was demonstrated by John Vasconcellos, California state senator, who proposed a bill that would give 16-year-olds one half of a vote and 14-year-olds one-fourth of a vote if passed. | | | The New Paltz Oracle - NYRA Strives to Lower Voting Age | | | "The majority of 18 year olds don't vote. |
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http://www.newpaltz.edu/oracle/article.cfm?id=1313
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| | BBC NEWS UK Politics Voting age 'should stay the same' |
| | But the commission says the voting age question could be revisited and there is no reason why the age for election candidates should not be harmonised with the voting age. | | | Tony Blair has hinted his opposition to lowering the voting age might be weakening, Schools Minister David Miliband has publicly backed the move. | | | Campaigners who want 16-year-olds to be able to vote have suffered a blow from the elections watchdog which says the voting age should stay at 18. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3637953.stm
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| | ABCNEWS.com : Bush Polls Well Among 12- to 17-Year Olds |
| | Among older teens, 54 percent have talked about the election with their parents, 66 percent are interested in it, and nearly half plan to vote in "every election" when they're old enough. | | | The president might want to consider lending his support to legislation currently before the California legislature: It proposes giving 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half a vote. | | | Teens' vote choices are influenced by their parent's party identification. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/youth_voters_poll_040315.html
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| | Vote to lower the voting age... - National Youth Rights Association |
| | Just like the whites who fought with the blacks in the civil rights movement. | | | National Youth Rights Association > The Issues > Voting Age | | | Then later on the voting age requirement should be replaced with a test of reasoning abilities and knowledge of politics and government. |
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http://forums.youthrights.org/showthread.php?t=3122
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| | VAP |
| | The Projected Voting Age Population is provided by Census in the Spring of each election year. | | | The term Voting Age Population (VAP), refers to the total number of persons in the United States who are 18 years of age or older regardless of citizenship, military status, felony conviction, or mental state. | | | Moreover, these are the most frequently cited sources in other private publications such as those from the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate and Congressional Quarterly. |
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http://www.fec.gov/pages/vapwords.htm
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| | Census Bureau, Voting-Age Projections |
| | Utah will have the youngest voter population; more than 1 in 5 people of voting age (22 percent) will be younger than 25 years old. | | | This reflects the aging of the "Baby Boomer" generation, those born between 1946 and 1964. | | | Florida will be the only state with almost one fourth (23.9 percent) of its voting-age population age 65 and over. |
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http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/cb98-81.html
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| | Age Weighted Voting in ZhurnalWiki |
| | A twenty-year-old would get 20 votes for age and 80 votes for life expectancy, and an eighty-year-old would get 80 votes for age and 20 for... | | | E.g., in deciding whether the national debt ceiling should be raised from $7.4 trillion to $10 trillion, a 20-year-old would get 80 votes, an 80-year-old 20 votes. | | | But if both parents were in harmony then they formed a strong age-weighted majority, and no amount of youthful exuberance could overrule them --- even though there were three of them and only two of us. |
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http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?AgeWeightedVoting
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| | Voting-Age Population Continues to Increase in North Dakota |
| | This proportion grew to three-fourths in 2000 and nearly 77 percent in 2002. | | | Along with gender and age, other indicators were also related to the propensity to vote in the 2000 presidential election. | | | The age differential in voting is an extremely important factor in the outcome of elections. |
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http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2003/110603/08voting.htm
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| | school age - definition of school age by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | The age at which a child is considered old enough to attend school. | | | school age - definition of school age by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | The Wisdom of Change: Voting Age Bill |
| | Tomorrow, a bill is going to be introduced to the City Council that will push for the voting age in NYC to be lowered to 16. | | | Gale Brewer is the author, and it has some good support. |
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http://www.karukeion.com/static/past/2005/06/voting_age_bill.html
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| | LII: Constitution |
| | The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age. | | | The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxxvi.html
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| | The Constitution of the United States of America |
| | The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. | | | The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. | | | [[Page 1995]] TWENTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT __________ REDUCTION OF VOTING AGE QUALIFICATION Section 1. |
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http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt26.html
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Lurie: The Internet Comes of (Voting) Age |
| | The Internet May Not Be Raising More Funds, Or Prompting More Voting | | | One prophecy held that by enabling direct voting, the Internet would decrease the power of politicians and subvert the influence of lobbyists. | | | FindLaw's Writ - Lurie: The Internet Comes of (Voting) Age |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/books/reviews/20040213_lurie.html
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| | Habitat Chronicles: The Avatar is Legal Voting Age |
| | Habitat Chronicles: The Avatar is Legal Voting Age | | | What are your feelings on lowering the voting age to 16-years-old? | | | Opinion, history, advice, and silliness from two guys who've been building this stuff for a long, long time. |
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http://www.fudco.com/habitat/archives/000022.html
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