Category: voting age

GOP Presidential Candidate Calls for Voting Age to Be Raised to 25

May 12, 2023
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Ohio businessman and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is touting a plan he says will spark patriotism in young voters. Ramaswamy is proposing a “Civic Duty Voting” Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “The United States faces a 25 percent recruitment deficit in the military, and just 16 percent of Gen Z say they’re proud to…

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New Zealand Moves to Lower Voting Age in Local Elections

March 14, 2023
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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced his government will not introduce legislation to lower the voting age for general elections to 16 following a Supreme Court decision in November that declared the current voting age “discriminatory.” As part of his announcement for wide-ranging policy changes, Hipkins said that rather than pursuing legislation to lower…

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Lowering the Right to Vote to 16 Years of Age Is Misguided

November 27, 2022
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Commentary On Nov. 21, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General (pdf) declared that the legal provisions “which provide for a minimum voting age of 18 years are inconsistent with the right … to be free from discrimination on the basis of age.” The Court has now waded into…

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New Zealand Court Rules Voting Age of 18 ‘Discriminatory’

November 21, 2022
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New Zealand’s peak judicial body, the Supreme Court, has declared the current minimum voting age of 18 to be discriminatory, paving the way for the voting age to be lowered to 16. Activist group, Make It 16, has been advocating for three years to drop the minimum voting age so that it is in line…

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