For and against: Lowering voting age
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With the next General Election some three years away, we in PoliticsLab asked how members of the public feel about the current minimum voting age: 18. Do they think 18 is the right age to be afforded the right the vote in elections? Or did they think the age needs to go higher or lower?
Discussions over the voting age are inevitably tied up with that small matter of the ‘age of majority’, or the age at which individuals are recognised as adults in law.
Where some feel that the voting age sh...
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