• The Scottish government has already said it would like the minimum voting age to be 16.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Teaching union backs votes at 16

  • He wants the government seriously to consider giving lowering the voting age from 16 to 17.

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  • Voting age for women was reduced in 1928 to 21 (the same as for men).

    BBC: Women in parliament

  • This is most apparent among the many Turks who have reached voting age since 1995.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey

  • Only 13% of the state's voting age population voted in primary elections two years ago.

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  • He would also lower the voting age to 17, and lessen the personal power of the prime minister.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Some political parties, including Labour in Britain, have suggested that the legal voting age should fall to 16.

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  • According to the 2000 Census, Hispanics of voting age make up 10 percent of the population in Montgomery County.

    CNN: Rising minorities find political clout elusive

  • They want someone else to suffer it, preferably someone in the future, someone who is not yet of voting age.

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  • This is likely to involve allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to taking part, whereas the minimum voting age in UK elections is 18.

    BBC: 'Lower the minimum voting age' for EU referendum

  • Ms Lucas argued that cutting the voting age could boost voter turnout.

    BBC: MPs support giving 16-year-olds the vote

  • The voting age in Iraq is 18, but anybody born in 1991 will be allowed to register and submit signatures after January 1.

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  • They want the assembly to be able to alter the arrangements for local elections, including having the ability to lower the voting age to 16.

    BBC: Kirsty Williams

  • If they're not of voting age, I'll go tell their parents.

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  • Responding for the government, the Lib Dem peer Lord Wallace, whose party supports lowering the voting age, insisted there was "nothing inevitable" about the move.

    BBC: Votes for 16-year-olds 'not inevitable'

  • AIDS. New data from studies in Tanzania and Uganda show that well over half the people who reach voting age can expect to die before retirement.

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  • Along with the independents and Democrats, Mr McCain is also hoping to benefit from the 400, 000 veterans in the state, who make up 13% of the voting age population.

    BBC: Republicans set for showdown

  • The first minister also answered questions on water supplies to Wales, lowering the voting age to sixteen and ensuring that the Welsh Language Commissioner has operational and financial independence.

    BBC: First minister's questions

  • They are a fast-growing group, although a relatively large proportion of them are below voting age and even those eligible to vote are less assiduous about it than Anglos are.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration politics

  • He is the U.K.'s only cardinal of voting age, and he was not due to step down until March 17 when he will reach the church's retirement age of 75 years.

    WSJ: Scottish Cardinal Resigns

  • Held inside Vatican City walls, the General Congregation is a forum where all cardinals, including those over the voting age limit of 80, will discuss the most pressing issues facing the Church.

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  • Conservative MP David Nuttall, who proposed the motion, argued there were more than 40 million people of voting age in the UK who had not been consulted on the question of Europe.

    BBC: EU referendum: Rebels lose vote in Commons

  • If so, his party's fortunes can only improve as the urban population grows, education improves, and young voters swell the rolls (another 1.2m, or almost a fifth of the current total, should reach voting age before the next election).

    ECONOMIST: Election pointers to the future

  • The 1980 census shows 17 million blacks of voting age -- 10.5% of the U.S. electorate -- with half in the South and concentrations of at least 1 million each in key states such as New York, California and Illinois.

    CNN: From Protest To Politics

  • The deal signed by Mr Cameron and Mr Salmond will also see Holyrood legislate for the date of the referendum, whether to reduce the voting age to 16, the wording of the question, campaign finance rules and the conduct of the referendum.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • However, he said he was disappointed by the narrow remit of the committee after Gordon Brown said last year that it could address issues including weekend voting, the representation of women and ethnic minorities and whether voting age should be lowered to 16.

    BBC: Probe into boosting minority MPs

  • Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Bill to lower voting age due

  • Others have warmed to the Greens agenda: its demand for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan, its opposition to the monarchy, an end to mandatory detention for asylum seekers, a ban on junk food advertising and a lowering of the voting age to 16.

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  • And on receipt of the Youth Citizenship Commission Report - and having heard from young people themselves - we will set out the steps we will take to increase the engagement of young people in politics - including whether to give further consideration to the voting age.

    BBC: In full: Constitution proposals

  • CNN's estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates the sample is about 3 to 4 points more Democratic than the population as a whole, but also about 2 to 3 points more Republican than the population as a whole.

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