The movement to lower the voting age is growing all over the world, and as always, the best place to go for research, arguments and updates about that movement is the NYRA website. The Voting Age Status Report has been updated to include new developments and new campaigns working on lowering the voting age. All…
Social media is home to lots of horrendous things. Unfortunately the ageist forces of anti-youth hate often find supportive audiences online. Public shaming videos where parents bully their children and proudly brag about it online are depressingly common. Even more depressing are the millions of parents who pass it around as an example of “good…
The Richmond Youth Council, a city-appointed advisory commission in Richmond, California, a city of 108,000, “recently decided to join San Francisco youth in a campaign called “16 in ’16,” which seeks to lower the voting age to 16 in municipal and school board elections,” according to Richmond Confidential, a local website. Richmond Confidential says that…
Yesterday Glenn Reynolds wrote that in light of the events happening at Yale and Mizzou that we should raise the voting age to 25. This is as dumb a suggestion as when Ann Coulter suggested raising the voting age to 30. To demonstrate how dumb an argument the otherwise reasonable Glenn Reynolds has made, let…
In an op-ed in The Guardian, British 17-year-old Ciaron Farrell says the U.K. should lower its voting age to 16. He writes, “Young people should have a right and an opportunity to shape their future, and the future of the country, at a time when they are having to decide what examination subjects to take…
The leader of Australia’s opposition Labor Party says the country’s voting age should be lowered to 16. In a speech last week, Bill Shorten said, “Young Australians like you deserve the right to shape the laws and policies that shape your lives. … I believe young people want to be involved in decision-making processes —…
It is happening! District of Columbia Councilmembers Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau and David Grosso today are introducing a bill today to lower the voting age to 16 in DC elections. Washington, DC would be the largest city in the nation to have a 16-year-old voting age. NYRA-DC has been working with local activist Michelle Blackwell from…
The District of Columbia is the newest front in the ongoing campaign to lower the voting age to 16. NYRA partner, OUR C.A.P.S. (Community Alliance for Peaceful Streets), kicked off their campaign to lower the DC voting age on Friday. Armed with stats and arguments provided by NYRA, this new group is bringing this issue…
For the first time since the election age was lowered to 16 for local elections in Takoma Park, these new voters had an opportunity to vote last Tuesday. And guess what? They showed up! Turnout among 16- and 17-year-olds in Tuesday’s election for mayor and Council members was four times higher than overall turnout, according…
NYRA Members elected a new Board of Directors. Congratulations to returning board members Jaylen Bledsoe, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure and Jeffrey Nadel, and welcome to new board members Jeff Buterbagh, Alexander Cohen, Amy O’Connel, Victoria Minerva Rodríguez Roldán, and Brad White. The Board of Diectors elected new officers: Jaylen Bledsoe (President); Brad White (Vice President); Victoria Minerva…
