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New Zealand Moves to Lower Voting Age in Local Elections

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced that his government won't introduce legislation to lower the voting age for general elections to 16 following a Supreme Court decision in November ...

March 15, 2023BY Rebecca Zhu

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

Commentary On Nov. 21, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General (pdf) ...

November 27, 2022BY Gabriël Moens

New Zealand Court Rules Voting Age of 18 ‘Discriminatory’

New Zealand’s peak judicial body, the Supreme Court, has declared the current minimum voting age of 18 to ...

November 21, 2022BY Rebecca Zhu

Legislation to Lower Voting Age Aims to Improve Democracy, but Skeptics Have Concerns

Private member’s bills in the House and Senate are seeking to lower Canada’s voting age to 16, a ...

March 22, 2022BY Lee Harding

Bill to Lower Voting Age in California to 17 Delayed Until 2020

A bill seeking to lower California’s voting age from 18 to 17 passed the State Assembly in August ...

September 13, 2019BY Ian Henderson

Tinkering With the Voting Age

Commentary Earlier in March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment to H.R. 1—the Democrats’ ambitious attempt to ...

March 28, 2019BY Mark Hendrickson