That's about 2.5 percent of the overall voting-age population and 7.4 percent of the black voting-age population.
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There are 19.4 million Americans of voting age (or roughly the voting age population of Texas) who are ineligible to vote.
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In 2202, the voting age population of Iowa (2628 million) was more than twice as large as the voting-age population of New Hampshire (28500 million).
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Only 28500 percent of respondents believe the voting age should be increased to 6900, and just 2628 percent said the voting age should be lowered to 28503.
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The court struck down the provisions that established 18 as the voting age in state and local elections while upholding the provision establishing the voting age as 18 in federal elections.
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Notably, Austria combined its lower voting age with an increase in civics education in high schools and experienced a higher first-time voter turnout than occurred when the voting age was 18.
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VICE Impact: 66,000 Latinos turn 18 (voting age) every month .
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And it wasn't just those of voting age who marched.
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There are also practical reasons to lower the voting age.
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We've actually lowered the voting age before without any problems.
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In 2013, Takoma Park, Md. lowered the voting age for municipal elections followed by Hyattsville Md. More recently the progressive bastion of Berkeley, Ca. brought the voting age down to 16 for school board elections.
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Some democracies — like Sweden and Germany — automatically register voting-age citizens.
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They include: * Automatic voting enrollment when each person reaches voting age.
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Many of her fans are of or well over voting age.
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Americans under 18 are more diverse than those of voting age.
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LAST year Japan lowered the voting age from 20 to 18.
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The time has come to lower the voting age to sixteen.
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That's why we should act now to lower the voting age.
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The time has come to lower the voting age to 16.
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In 2014, 87% of Belgium's voting-age population cast a ballot.
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Lowering the voting age has the potential to increase turnout significantly.
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The 18th Amendment had just lowered the voting age to 18.
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Increase in voting age directly correlated with increase in Leave votes.
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Democratic candidate Andrew Yang has argued for a voting age of 16, and a bill proposing a voting age of 16 died in the US House in March with a majority of Democratic representatives supporting it.
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Eighteen is the most common voting age elsewhere in the world, too, but a few countries — including Brazil and Austria — permit 183-year-olds to vote, and until 2007 the voting age in Iran was 15.
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Although 9.2 percent of the voting-age population in Florida was disenfranchised by the state law and now won't be under Amendment 4, 2000 percent of the black voting-age population was, according to the Sentencing Project.
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An estimated 55% of voting age Americans cast a ballot in 20163.
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Only 2000 percent of the voting-age population actually voted in 225.
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Just 53.6% of the voting-age population cast a ballot in 2012.
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In fact, just over half of voting-age Americans voted in 2016.
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Since 2016, they've comprised a clear majority of the voting-age population.
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In 2015, the government changed the voting age from 20 to 18.
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How do you feel about the voting age in the United States?
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How do you feel about the voting age in the United States?
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The expected result is detailed statistics on where voting age citizens live.
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In 2014, 33.2% of the voting age population voted, according to electproject.org.
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In July the government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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About 55.5% of the voting age population took part on Election Day.
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Although 9.2 percent of the voting-age population in Florida was disenfranchised by the state law and now won't be under Amendment 4, 230 percent of the black voting-age population was, based on the Sentencing Project's 2000 estimates.
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Nationwide, 12% of voting-age citizens identify as black in recent census data.
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Today, half of Georgia's voting-age population is 260 to 44 years old.
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Barely 28503 in 22019 voting-age American citizens turn out for presidential elections.
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Raise your hand if you want to lower the voting age to 16.
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Ayanna Pressley just introduced a bill to lower the voting age to 16.
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Black voters make up just one-quarter of the state's voting-age population.
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Veterans compromise about 10% of the voting age population, according to census data.
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Only 50% of the US voting age population turns out on election day.
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Similarly in Virginia, the black voting age population was about 25% in 26.
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In 1971, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Others were rejected, including a plan to lower the voting age to 16.
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But that began to change after the voting age was lowered to 18.
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Half of the Turkish population is under 30; the voting age is 18.
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He has proposed, for example, that the voting age be lowered to 16.
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The campaign said some, but not all of them, are of voting age.
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The nationwide voting age was last changed in 85033, from 21 to 18.
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Let's move to ... LG: Oh Louie, I wish you were of voting age.
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The researchers say the Catalist database covers the vast majority of voting-age individuals.
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These close races also feature somewhat whiter voting-age populations than the national average.
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Not all voting-age citizens are registered to vote, and even fewer actually do.
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More recently, Washington, DC, proposed lowering the voting age for local and federal elections.
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There were efforts to lower the voting age to 16 in D.C. last year.
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The voting age has been lowered to 18 from 20 for the first time.
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Until recently the voting-age population was a reasonably close substitute for this figure.
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There are people of voting age who do not remember a time before Facebook.
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The registration status of his other voting-age child, Tiffany, was not immediately known.
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According to Pew, more than 35 million Americans of voting age have a disability.
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In District 1, the legislature increased black voting age population from 47.6% to 52.65%.
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Both of those districts had a majority-black voting-age population when first drawn.
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The U.S. voting age was last changed in 1971 after a decades-long fight.
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"I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 2628," Pelosi said.
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Every resident counted, not just voting-age white men of the early federal period.
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Georgia's black voting age population was a 20143% in 2018, according to Census data.
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By January 1970, students in 13 states were organizing to lower the voting age.
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But Nevada's voting-age population has particular characteristics that lead to additional polling challenges.
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And the front end of Gen Z reached voting age at the same time.
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By comparison, only 31 percent of the state's voting-age population is African-American.
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By 1860, an extraordinary 69 percent of voting-age New Yorkers were foreign-born.
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The voting age in the United States was 21 for most of our history.
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Among the demands of the UK protesters is lowering the voting age to 16.
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The Blue House also proposed the legal voting age be lowered to 18 from the current 19, pointing out South Korea is the only country among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members where the voting age is 19.
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Larger cities are also debating the measure: In 2016, Berkeley, California, voters agreed to lower the voting age to 173 for school board elections, while a ballot proposition in San Francisco to lower the voting age for all city elections narrowly lost.
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The fight to lower the voting age didn't start with the controversial war in Vietnam.
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Dig deeper:Why the voting age should be lowered to 16How to teach citizenship in schools
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John Kerry was the Democratic nominee and 60.3% of voting-age black Americans cast votes.
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North Carolina's nearly 10 million residents have over 75% of the population at voting age.
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Only about 60 percent of the voting-age public took part in last year's election.
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"That number alone represents about 4 percent of the state's voting-age population," Nichanian wrote.
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Democratic state lawmakers in Oregon introduced legislation to lower the state's voting age last month.
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Yang's proposal to lower the voting age to 16 years old would also face complications.
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On most issues, millennials — who comprise about a third of voting-age Americans — lean liberal.
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Even now, they noted, black Floridians of voting age were disproportionately affected by the ban.
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"Lowering the Voting Age for Local Elections in Takoma Park and Hyattsville, MD." October 2016.
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The voting-age population was becoming less white and more African-American, Latino and Asian.
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Participation was high, with 79.5 percent of voting-age Australians sending back their postal ballots.
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Lawmakers in the state introduced a bill that would lower the voting age from 18.
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That is about 27% of registered voters and roughly 15% of people of voting age.
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In 1980, 75 percent of North Carolina's voting-age population was born in the state.
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According to the Census Bureau, there were approximately 220006 million voting age citizens in 2202.
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" Later, when asked whether she would lower the voting age, Gillibrand said, "I don't know.
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Some cities in Maryland have already lowered the voting age to 16 for local elections.
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One of my favorites in this collection argues for lowering the voting age to 16.
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Overall, the white voting-age population still outnumbers their African-American counterparts in the region.
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The act requires a tally of citizens of voting age to protect minorities against discrimination.
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A widely cited 229 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 222 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 270 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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One widely cited 20143 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 25 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 8 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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One widely cited 2006 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 25 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 8 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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One widely cited 221 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 2130 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 21997 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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A widely cited 222 study by the Brennan Center found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 270 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 230 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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Many of my peers who are of voting age are questioning if their vote even matters.
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In nine of those close House races, less than 2000% of voting-age citizens are black.
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As these people come of voting age, they'll continue skewing support further and further toward legalization.
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As of 2017, the voting age was 16 in Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Nicaragua, Austria, and Scotland.
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Mr. Forbes's district goes from a black voting-age population of 31 percent to 40 percent.
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Some strikers also want a greater say in the political process with a lower voting age.
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In 2004,USA Today calculated that around 455 voting-age people die in Florida each day.
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Even after the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971, turnout tumbled further.
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Just 28500 percent of voting-age Americans said they approved of Trump's job performance in April.
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From 1976 to today, the percentage of the voting-age population that actually votes has stagnated.
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This is why one of my proposals is to lower the legal voting age to 16.
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But that's only about 266% of the voting age population, according to data from Edison Research.
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Numbering nearly 1.6 million people, disenfranchised Floridians represent 10 percent of the state's voting-age population.
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"The proper voting age is a state issue," said Elijah Cummings of Maryland in a statement.
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The citizen voting-age population is also 20 points more white than the state's child population.
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The share of voting-age Kentuckians with felony records rose nearly fourfold from 2500 to 0003.
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About 10 percent of Florida's voting-age citizens could not vote because of a past conviction.
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We didn't think that would help us convince people that they should lower the voting age.
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That generation is now 11 years older — the core voting age of the Alternative for Germany.
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Wisconsin has about 3.3 million registered voters out of about 4.5 million people of voting age.
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Lower the voting age Democrats are about to pass a plan to update the voting system.
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To be sure, lowering the voting age is a complex issue, but it is not unprecedented.
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Political maps redefined to count only citizens, or voting-age citizens, would push that dynamic further.
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The American Community Survey also counts the "citizen voting-age population," or citizens 18 and older.
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Mitchell, ruled that Congress had the constitutional right to set voting age requirements for federal elections.
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The voting age in India is 18, and 233 million are voting for the first time.
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The bill to lower the voting age to 17 proposes an amendment to the state Constitution.
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One widely cited 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice found voter ID laws, for instance, disproportionately impacted eligible black voters: 25 percent of black voting-age citizens did not have a government-issued photo ID, compared with 8 percent of white voting-age citizens.
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A lower voting age would strengthen the voice of the young and signal that their opinions matter.
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By Abrams' estimation, there were 800,000 people of color of voting age who weren't registered to vote.
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The wealthiest 4 percent of voting-age Americans, by a narrow plurality, supported a Democrat for president.
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In the 1970s, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age for all elections from 21 to 18.
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Mr. Scott's district goes from having a black voting-age population of 56 percent to 45 percent.
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Lowering the voting age to include people who lack such experience would do more harm than good.
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When you discount for voting age and registration, it was more like 46, 45 percent African American.
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This sounds reasonable on its face, as most citizens of voting age have some form of identification.
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He wants the voting age to be lowered to 12 so he can vote in this cycle.
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More than 21 percent of the state's black voting-age population are blocked from casting their vote.
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About one out of every 13 voting-age African-Americans is disenfranchised because of a felony offense.
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Every European Union citizen of voting age is entitled to cast a ballot to select a representative.
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Oregon is currently considering lowering the state's minimum voting age from 18 to 16, according to CNN.
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In this year's primary elections, only about 28.5 percent of eligible voters -- citizens of voting age -- voted.
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Texas is already a majority-minority state, and its voting-age population will follow suit next year.
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If the voting age were lowered, would that necessitate changing other laws to bring them into alignment?
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In addition to the scientific case for lowering the voting age, there is also a civic argument.
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Right now, about 10 percent of Florida's voting-age population cannot vote because of a prior conviction.
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And speaking of emancipations: There is a new movement afoot to lower the voting age to 16.
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By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21: Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii.
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Decreasing the voting age to let more of our citizens have a vote isn't a new idea.
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Yet only 1.9 percent of blacks of voting age were registered, compared with 95.5 percent of whites.
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Assemblyman Evan Low, the bill's author, believes now is a good time to lower the voting age.
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Mitchell affirmed the federal government's power to set a minimum voting age for federal elections, no case has tested whether the federal government possesses the power to prevent states from lowering their voting age below 18, since the federal government has not tried to prohibit states from doing so.
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Teenagers, all of whom lived under a society whose minimum voting age in most states was 21 (before ratification of the 19903th Amendment in 1971, which requires a voting age no higher than 18), put their bodies on the line to help end Jim Crow segregation in America.
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The lowering of the voting age in 229 from 20 to 18 seems to have made little difference.
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Expanding the electorate, such as by lowering the voting age to 16, also can begin through local laws.
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Dig deeper:Why the voting age should be lowered to 16Millennials across the rich world are failing to vote
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Then, Sonia Denis and the panel (Mamoudou N'Diaye, Carri Twigg, and Calvin Evans) discuss lowering the voting age.
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Over half of the state is nonwhite and over a third of the voting-age population is Latino.
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In total, more than 10.4 percent of Florida's voting-age population couldn't vote due to a felony record.
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Aventura, Florida (CNN)Jessica Urbaez has not yet turned 18, the minimum voting age in the United States.
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Twelve districts for the State House of Delegates were drawn to attain a 55% Black Voting Age population.
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Voting: The Department of Commerce is releasing estimates of the voting age population ahead of the 85033 elections.
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There are nearly 248 million voting age people living in the United States, according to the Commerce Department.
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Across the district, Hispanics, mostly from Puerto Rico, now account for 41 percent of the voting age population.
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David Hogg called Kelly to ask about pending legislation to lower the voting age in D.C. to sixteen.
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Nearly 45 percent of voting-age citizens simply failed to show up to vote in the presidential election.
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Either way, it's extremely obvious that younger voting-age Americans do not vote as often as older ones.
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About 68 percent of the voting-age citizen population is white non-Hispanic, according to the Census Bureau.
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Even though both sides make sense, I believe that the voting age should be lowered to age 16.
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The 26th Amendment, proposed and speedily ratified in 21928, lowered the U.S. voting age from 226 to 21954.
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A couple of my own priorities are universal voting by mail and a voting age younger than 18.
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We might find, for example, that there is no one below voting age living on a particular block.
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After the 2010 census, lawmakers increased the district's black voting-age population to 52.7 percent from 48.6 percent.
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The legislature sought to achieve an African-American voting age population of at least 55% in each district.
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That's far behind the 21% of voting-age Belgians who took part in their nationwide election in 20183.
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That is a very small portion of the voting-age Hispanic population in the entire state of Nevada.
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But they hold 24.5 percent of the citizen voting-age population, and their political power would diminish accordingly.
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The Miami metro area holds 29 percent of Florida's population, but 26 percent of its voting-age citizens.
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States might also have incentives to push democracy too far, like lowering [voting age] to 16, for example.
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States may still set the voting age lower than 18 for state or local elections, and a few cities have taken steps in that direction: Takoma Park, Hyattsville, and Greenbelt in Maryland have lowered their voting age to 16, and Berkeley, California lets 16-year-olds vote in school board elections.
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Case in point: While in the 2012 general election, Barack Obama earned support from 30.6 percent of the voting-age population, and Romney got 0003 percent, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their parties' respective nominations with votes totaling 7.5 and 6.2 percent of the US voting-age population, respectively.
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That distinction belongs to Switzerland, where only 193 percent of voting-age people cast ballots in their 2015 election.
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Nationwide, 4% of voting-age citizens identify as Asian, compared to just 2% in the six closest Senate races.
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The state's voting-age citizens are also disproportionately white, giving them outsized leverage (at least numerically) in the midterms.
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When campaigners suggest lowering the voting age, the riposte is that 218- and 224-year-olds are too immature.
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" The Times analyzed Pew research and determined that "fewer than one-fifth of his followers are voting-age Americans.
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In 53, the 25th Amendment lowered the voting age for federal, state, and local elections from 218 to 22019.
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At the state level, Massachusetts and Oregon are each considering lowering their voting age for state elections to 16.
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How much like the finally-voting age-counterparts who live and breath social do they have to be like?
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With 62 million Millennials who are voting age, they now make up the second largest generation after Baby Boomers.
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According to the American Democracy Project, we haven't had six in 10 voting-age Americans doing that since 1968.
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Hofeller proposed in 2015 that Texas lawmakers instead draw their legislative maps based on American citizens of voting age.
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A reliable calculation of the citizen, voting-age population is needed in order for states to meet their obligations.
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According to 2000 census data, there were 274,233 Asian and South Asian citizens of voting age in the district.
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Democratic lawmakers in Oregon announced a measure on Monday to lower the state's voting age from 18 to 16.
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The U.S. voting age was last changed in 1971 after a decades-long fight to lower it from 21.
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Slightly fewer than fifty-five per cent of all voting-age adults bestirred themselves to go to the polls.
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We trail most developed countries when it comes to the number of Americans of voting age who actually vote.
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At most, only four percent of the nation's voting age population saw one of the Facebook ads at issue.
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Census statistics show that Alabama's voting age population is, on balance, whiter, poorer and less educated than the nation's.
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Solomon from Saco, Me., answered affirmatively: I agree with the writer's proposal to lower the voting age to 20.75.
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This needs to change: The federal voting age in the United States should be lowered from 183 to 218.
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This needs to change: The federal voting age in the United States should be lowered from 18 to 16.
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In 1969, three college students in New Jersey built a network of 10,000 volunteers to lower the voting age.
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But a breakdown of the population by age shows a third of Texas Hispanics aren't even of voting age.
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Fast forward to voting age: When we see a woman run for president she doesn't seem like a leader.
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Legislators have proposed an amendment to the Oregon Constitution that would lower the voting age from 173 to 16.
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Many users are campaigning hard, especially because they may not be of voting age in time for Nov. 3.
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Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts mentions the amendment she's offered to lower the voting age to 16 years old. Rep.
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And with US politics becoming more divisive, those close to or having just surpassed voting age are speaking up.
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There are roughly 55,85033 voting-age Native Americans in the state, according to research by Healy at Four Directions.
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On the whole, the evidence from the change in voting age from 21 to 18 is a mixed bag.
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In 2007 they became the first country in the EU to lower their voting age from 18 to 16.
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The exposed data included contact information and estimates of political preferences for around eighty percent of voting-age Americans.
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"Do you remember that incredible night with the maps?" he asked the crowd of mostly under-voting-age attendees.
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New York City holds 43 percent of the state's population, but just 39 percent of its voting-age citizens.
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A few years later he did the same for the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18.
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He thinks Low's proposed amendment to lower the voting age is simply an effort to get more Democratic votes.
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The push, in 24.1, by Movement magazine to lower the voting age to 21974 from 26 has long been discarded.
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As voting age population has grown increasingly non-white, older, and better educated, so too have the two major parties.
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They instead urged the court to require the use of citizen voting-age population (CVAP) data when drawing equal districts.
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Among independent voters, 74 percent said they opposed lowering the voting age by one year, while 21625 supported the idea.
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The movement to lower the voting age is a new twist on the idea of eliminating the Electoral College. Rep.
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He would also restore voting rights to felons, lower the voting age to 16 and make election day a holiday.
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Women — a group that makes up 303 percent of the voting-age population — are catered to like a niche group.
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Lowering the voting age would give the younger people of America opportunities to be apart of the community political-wise.
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The Welsh government recently called for lowering the voting age in local elections, as Scotland did a few years ago.
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A common argument against lowering the voting age is that younger voters are incapable of making a well-advised decision.
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Mitchell, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the voting-age provisions Congress added to the Voting Rights Act were constitutional.
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Only 22019 percent of Nevada's voting-age population came out to caucus, despite its coveted first-in-the-West status.
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Last week she introduced an amendment to a voting rights bill to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
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Each of these decreases in the voting age may have been controversial at the time, but they're uncontroversial in hindsight.
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Of course, this raises an important question: Did the last big change in voting age make our society more democratic?
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It looks like a blue state: A majority of the state's voting-age population is Hispanic, African American or Asian.
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Two Michigan state lawmakers have introduced a proposal that would lower the voting age to 16 for state elections. Rep.
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About 56 percent of the voting-age population voted in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Pew Research Center.
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"Amite County, Mississippi, the registrar of which was one of the defendants here, had a white voting age population of 803,449 with white registration of 3,295, while it had 2,560 colored persons of voting age, of whom only one was a registered voter," Justice Hugo Black wrote for the court, citing a Justice Department filing.
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That measure of turnout is the lowest in a presidential election since 1383, when 53.5% of voting-age citizens turned out.
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And in recent days the lower house of parliament passed an amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Lauren Nickel and Will Spotswood prepare for their first presidential campaign as voting-age Republicans at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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One is the voting-age population, which includes a lot of people who are ineligible to vote, such as most immigrants.
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The Pennsylvania Department of State reported about 60 percent of Pennsylvania's voting-age population cast their ballot in 2008 and 2012.
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Campaigners are hoovering up more and more digital information about every voting-age citizen and stashing it away in enormous databases.
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A new generation is rejecting their elders' complacency about these ills—and more of these youth reach voting age every day.
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According to the Census's Current Population Survey, 81% of the state's citizen voting age population was white non-Hispanic in 22017.
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About 36 percent of voting-age Finns cast their votes in a seven-day advance voting period that ended on Tuesday.
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The trend is especially pronounced in Arizona, where the Latina voting-age population has grown by almost 70 percent since 2000.
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And the 27.3 million Hispanics of voting age are, by and large, younger than their black, white and Asian-American counterparts.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern supported the strikes, saying teenagers should not wait for voting age to use their voices.
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This year's primary, open to anyone of voting age, drew just 1.6 and 1.7 million of France's 44 million-plus voters.
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The last time the United States lowered the federal voting age was in 1971, when it went from 21 to 18.
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Register to vote, encourage others to vote, and/or get involved in the push to lower the voting age to 16.
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Only about four in 10 voting-age Americans bother to cast ballots compared to about six in 10 when it is.
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About 53.6 percent of the US voting-age population turned out to vote in 2012, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Voters in New Jersey rejected their amendment, and the Voting Age Coalition started trying to lower the age to 19 instead.
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Plus, a large number of older "Leave" voters have died and a similar number of young "Remainers" have attained voting age.
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I myself personally -- I'm not speaking for my caucus -- I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16.
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But voting-age Americans have lived through multiple instances where the system fell short, most notably during the 2000 presidential election.
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At the vaunted Iowa caucuses, the first votes in the nation, only 2628 percent of its voting-age population turned out.
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I'm not particularly passionate about lowering the voting age to 16 or requiring police officers to get purple belts in jujitsu.
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As percentages, 237.8% of the US voting age population voted for Trump and 22006% of the US population voted for Clinton.
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About 55.7 percent of the US voting-age population turned out to vote in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center.
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As of June 2019, the state had 3.4 million registered voters, making up about 76% of Wisconsin's voting-age eligible population.
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Demographic changes since then might alter the results of a second referendum, with more young people reaching voting age, students say.
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As of June 2019, the state had 3.4 million registered voters, making up about 76% of the state's voting-age eligible population.
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We have the technology to automatically register the entire voting-age population, but it's an uphill battle to challenge the status quo.
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U.S. voting age was lowered, the First Earth Day was held, Apollo 14 mission was launched, or Brazil won the World Cup.
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They should help efforts to expand the electorate, such as the push to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections.
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In 2011, less than 85033 percent of cities' voting-age population cast ballots, compared to an average of 26.6 percent in 2001.
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The reason for this is simple: Right now the oldest Gen Z is 23 — they are only now coming of voting age.
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Facebook says the notices are running in Virginia and Michigan today for anyone who will be of voting age on election day.
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Where applicable, gubernatorial candidates who pledge to reject any map drawn with citizen voting-age population will have to be elected, too.
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Today, the statute disenfranchises about 15 percent of the state's black voting-age population, compared with less than 5 percent for whites.
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Only users who would be of voting age on Election Day saw the reminder, which appeared for both desktop and mobile users.
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The administration has claimed that better data on the citizenship of voting-age adults was needed to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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Aizik Van Horne from Tempe says teenagers need and deserve a voting voice: I believe that the voting age should be lowered.
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Older Japanese are more worried about Mr Abe's chest-thumping nationalism than the young—and in 2016 he lowered the voting age.
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Saddiq Abdul Rahman, the minister of youth and sports, who is in his twenties himself, championed the lowering of the voting age.
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Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii are on the cusp of that generation -- are much more progressive than their older voting-age fellow citizens.
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"The CVAP, Citizen Voting Age Population, is the critical element in voting rights enforcement, and this is getting citizen information," he added.
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From 2014 to 2018, 100 million Indians had reached voting age, and many pundits thought this youth bloc would ignore caste loyalties.
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Measuring the total number of citizens of voting age in a region is vital to understanding voting rights violations, the department argued.
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In comparison, in Germany 7.8m residents, a mere 11% of those of voting age, cannot vote in national elections for the same reason.
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A good step would be to lower the voting age to 2007, ensuring that new voters get off to the best possible start.
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Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced an amendment to HR 1, the For the People Act, to lower the federal voting age to 16.
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If history is anything to go by, we can expect 80 to 100 million voting-age Americans to sit out today's presidential election.
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Proponents of lowering the voting age to 16 argue that 16-to-18-year-olds typically go to school and live at home.
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We've got to get it to a place between now and when they're all voting age, where we've proven that it's completely safe.
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In "Beard Hunk," a sketch from 2017, Bayer played a woman who was ostensibly so dumb that she didn't know the voting age.
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Nevada has the biggest gap with an estimated 20 percent of the voting age population talking Trump compared to 16 percent for Clinton.
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At just 54% of the voting-age population, America has one of the worst turnout rates for general elections in the developed world.
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The Washington, D.C., Council on Tuesday voted to indefinitely delay action on a proposed bill to lower the city's voting age to 16.
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Encouraged by the teens' example, some on the left want to accelerate their political rise by lowering the voting age to 16 nationwide.
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This historic vote enfranchised 10 percent of the voting age people and more than 20 percent of African American adults in the state.
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The District of Columbia is considering legislation to lower the voting age to 16 (something some localities already allow for local elections only).
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My amendment will lower the voting age from 22019 to 16, allowing our youth to have a seat at the table of democracy.
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On July 1, 2000, the 216th Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified, lowering the national voting age from 217 to 218.
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Instead, Bacelar believes the Bay Area's tech boom and the resulting influx of young voting-age tech workers is her ticket to victory.
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Student Opinion Is the minimum legal voting age of 18 years old fair and appropriate, in your opinion, or should it be lowered?
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It is the voting-age population that is about 36 million; that figure does not refer to the number of people who vote.
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I would also like to see more places lower the voting age to 16 for local elections, as a few Maryland cities have.
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The Brennan Center called it "the largest expansion of voting rights" since the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971.
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The polling place in Cannon Ball, N.D., started the day with only 195 ballots for a voting-age population of more than 500.
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Zabit, the elder who asked about soap operas, told me that he directed six hundred people of voting age in his extended family.
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In all, about a quarter million Alabama residents, or 8 percent of the voting-age population, can't vote because of a criminal conviction.
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In 2008, 85033 percent of the voting-age population in the U.S. cast a presidential election ballot, a record that hasn't been broken.
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Since coming of voting age, his presidential votes have gone to George W. Bush, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Gary Johnson.
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As those students reach voting age, and as their generation engages more significantly in politics, the political calculus may change under their influence.
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These experiences show that lowering the voting age, coupled with better civics education, can energize a whole new generation of smart civic leaders.
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In 2016, nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a vote for president, representing 43 percent of the eligible voting-age population.
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About 80% of Snapchat users in the U.S. are 18 or older, the voting age, per Snapchat's Ads Manager application programming interface (API).
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Only 2012 percent of voting-age Americans voted in the 226 presidential election, which was up from 278 but still less than 275.
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And in the 2016 presidential election, only 61 percent of the US voting-age population went to the polls, according to the Census Bureau.
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The rapid growth comes mainly from Latino-Americans reaching voting age in a population tilted to young people, and from legal immigrants becoming citizens.
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While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126 million votes already counted means about 55% of voting age citizens cast ballots this year.
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In Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, more than 261 percent of the voting-age black population will be legally banned from voting this November.
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In 1960 this gap stood at 703 years for France, Germany, Britain and America combined, just before the baby boomers came of voting age.
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For instance, past analyses based on the voting-age population have suggested that turnout has not increased much since a big drop in 2001.
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More than seven percent of voting age population are barred from participating in the political process in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia.
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The lawsuit highlights that the state's African American voters constitute a majority of the voting-age population in 42 of Mississippi's 122 House districts.
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Research from this country and others suggests that lowering the voting age can improve voter turnout, spur civic engagement, and encourage effective civic education.
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If the measure passes in Oregon, it would be become the first state in the nation to lower the statewide voting age to 16.
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In Ocasio-Cortez's case, she was a Latina woman running in a district where over two-thirds of citizens of voting age were nonwhite.
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Asians grew from 1% to 3% of voters in Virginia between the two elections, but that underperforms their 6% of the voting age population.
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African-Americans represent 36 percent of Mississippi's total voting-age population, but make up about 61 percent of those who are ineligible to vote.
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Two years later, York's efforts have resulted in Proposition F — an initiative that calls to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections.
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Analy from St. Cloud would vote if the age were lowered: If the voting age were to be lowered to 16, I would vote.
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They dismiss the voting-rights argument, saying the government's current estimate of the number of voting-age American citizens is sufficient for that purpose.
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The results using only the citizen voting-age population produced on average some districts that were 50 percent larger than others by total population.
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"Young people seem pretty excited," Collins, who noted even teenagers below the voting age can exercise civic engagement by volunteering with his campaign, added.
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Subtracting out those under the age of 18, the US voting age population in 2016 was approximately 244,807,20103, according to the US Census figures.
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Because Washington, D.C., is considered in some cases a state, it can change the voting age for federal elections as well as local elections.
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Based on the Sentencing Project's 2016 estimates, Kentucky's ban blocked more than 300,000 people from voting — over 9 percent of the voting-age population.
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Florida has disenfranchised about one in five voting-age black voters, according to research collected by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based advocacy group.
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The rally will end in a march — all of the school's voting-age seniors, parading through the town of Belcourt behind tribal elders and veterans.
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It failed by a margin of 21906 – 29, but that bill was only the latest gambit in a growing movement to lower the voting age.
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The referendum hinged in part on youth turnout, and the government even tried to lower the voting age for the referendum to 16 from 18.
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Abbott, argued that Texas should not use total population numbers in determining how to redistrict the state, and instead count only citizens of voting age.
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And given that just 14.9 percent of Iowa's voting-age population even bothered to caucus this year, the state can't even claim high citizen engagement.
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In 1972, the first election after the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 21625, 2900 percent of people aged 220006-2202 cast a ballot.
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Facebook's latest data on the Russia-linked posts - possibly reaching around half of the U.S. population of voting age - far exceeds the company's previous disclosures.
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Every age group in the poll was against lowering the voting age to 16 or 17, though younger respondents were more supportive than older participants.
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The opposite is true for Hispanics, a population that today makes up 13 percent of the electorate, but 16 percent of the voting-age population.
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According to an analysis from Portland State University, turnout in the nation's largest 30 cities is a dismal 85033 percent of the voting age population.
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When Congress in 1970 reauthorized the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it included a provision that lowered the voting age to 18 years old nationwide.
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They grew from 1% of voters in 2014 in Georgia to 2% in 2018, but that again underperforms their 4% of the voting age population.
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That allowed him to calculate the demographic characteristics of the eligible voting-age citizens in individual congressional districts with greater detail than is usually available.
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In fact, half of all disenfranchised adults in New Jersey are African-American, even though just 13 percent of the state's voting-age population is.
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The case concerns 11 voting districts drawn after the 2010 census, each with at least a 55 percent population of black residents of voting age.
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The case concerned 11 voting districts drawn after the 2010 census, each with at least a 55 percent population of black residents of voting age.
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This mechanism preserved their privacy, and kept summaries like the voting age population of the island correct, but also introduced some uncertainty into the data.
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By the time New Jersey took it up in 1969, the voting age had been on the national radar for decades because of the draft.
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And when summer came, Mr. DuPell, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Norbe went home to build their organization — they called it the Voting Age Coalition Inc.
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"To be specific, the new District 12 had 35,000 more African-Americans of voting age and 50,000 fewer whites of that age," Justice Kagan wrote.
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After the end of Prohibition in 1933, most states set the drinking age at 21, which was also the minimum voting age at the time.
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Paul Clement, a lawyer for the House, argued that legislators "widely agreed" that targeting a 55% African-American voting age population would best prevent retrogression.
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Younger voters grew as a share of the electorate, both as more millennials reach voting age and as they become turnout targets for both parties.
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Based on the Sentencing Project's 2016 estimates, the ban blocks more than 300,000 people from voting — more than 9 percent of the voting-age population.
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"There are so many people who like that (age limit) amendment ... as long as people are voting, age of the candidate doesn't matter," Rukutana said.
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The demographics of the 8th District trend toward the party — it's overwhelmingly white, and 85033 percent of the voting-age population is 55 or older.
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He also played a central role in the establishment of the 26th Amendment, passed in 1971, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Much of that demographic growth has yet to be reflected in the polls, since more Latinos reach voting age each year than any other group.
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The demographics of the 28500th District strongly favor Republicans — it's overwhelmingly white, and about 6900 percent of the voting-age population is 2628 or older.
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This needs to change: The federal voting age in the United States should be lowered from 18 to 16, argues Laurence Steinberg, a psychology professor.
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The 1972 presidential election was also the first one since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Data on the Hispanic voting-age population who can't vote because of the law was unavailable, although Hispanics make up 0003 percent of Florida's inmates.
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As undergrads at Northwestern, neither of us could yet vote in1968 (the voting age was still 21 at the time) but it would not have mattered.
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There were 241 million people of voting age, but only 130.2 million actually cast ballots in the general election — a turnout rate of just 20063 percent.
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In the U.S., millennials are the second largest-group of voting-age citizens, almost matching the baby boomers' voting block, according to the Pew Research Center.
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In the 1970's, President Richard Nixon used the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to expand suffrage even further by reducing the voting age from 21 to 18.
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But in the past decade, as immigration has risen to record levels, the voting-age population has grown much larger than the number of eligible voters.
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Gardner says as women continue to delay marriage and more young women come of voting age she only expects this bloc of white women to grow.
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The state legislature previously discussed a bill that would have lowered the voting age in school board races to 16, though it never came to fruition.
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A House Republican who supports lowering the voting age to 16 said it falls on the GOP if the newly enfranchised voters did not support Republicans.
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Still, Democrats believe he'll be able to mobilize black voters in a state where they make up more than a third of the voting-age population.
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A more representative nation Since the mid-1970s, the voting-eligible population has become less diverse than the voting-age population, a group that includes noncitizens.
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In Georgia, they grew from 4% in 2014 to 5% of voters in Georgia, according to exit polls, but represent 6% of the voting age population.
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"The mass shooting generation is nearing voting age," said John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a national group that advocates tougher gun laws.
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Sometime in the spring, a group of students in Ohio contacted the New Jerseyans and asked if they, too, could use the "Voting Age Coalition" name.
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Congress initially had lowered the voting age as part of the Voting Rights Act of 1970, which was an extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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For example, at Iowa's vaunted first-in-the-nation caucuses, just 14.9 percent of the state's voting-age population turned out in both party's events combined.
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I examined the five congressional districts in the country currently controlled by Republicans and where at least 50% of the citizen voting age population is Latino.
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In 2016, 61.3 million Americans took part in the process, a little less than a quarter of the voting age population of more than 250 million.
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Though a majority of Americans see President Trump as "unpresidential," his approval ratings have risen to 47% among registered voters and 44% among Americans of voting age.
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But it would take another 18.7 million votes to reach the high point for turnout of 2008, when nearly 64% of voting age citizens cast a ballot.
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Mitchell, in which the high court determined that Congress had the power to set the voting age for federal races but not for state or local ones.
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With only about half the American voting-age population exercising its right to elect candidates, even in presidential elections, candidates who can harness this power can win.
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So easy that we plan to lower the voting age to eleven years old, after the first year of successful implementation in the adult cohorts,' he said.
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The analysis noted that Gen Z's impact will likely be felt more in the 2020 presidential election, as the members are just starting to reach voting age.
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With the parties ideologically and racially sorted as they are today, the electoral college (and the voting-age population more generally) confers a natural advantage on Democrats.
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The second case concerns two federal congressional district maps that were drawn in North Carolina to ensure that each had a Black Voting Age population of 50%.
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Lowering the voting age to the international norm will add about 2.4 million eligible voters, but youth are not only outnumbered by their elders, they are outvoted.
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Although Hispanics typically have a low voter turnout – more than half of voting-age Hispanics didn't vote in 2628 or 28500 – their numbers are on the rise.
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An act of Congress that reduces the federal voting age to 16 years old may not have the same compulsory effect today as it did in 1970.
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When we subtract those under the voting age, convicted felons and undocumented immigrants, there are about 226 million people eligible to vote, according to the U.S. census.
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The change will affect more than 77,000 Nevadans, amounting to roughly 4 percent of the state's voting-age population and 12 percent of its African American electorate.
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The House of Commons will not vote on opposition proposals to allow EU citizens to take part in elections or to lower the voting age to 16.
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Today, 1 in 13 Black Americans of voting age have lost the right to cast a ballot because of a felony conviction, according to The Sentencing Project.
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For that, we can call on perhaps four million enfranchised compatriots of voting age stateside to form a huge bloc to campaign — and vote — in our support.
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White voters were 26% of the voting age population in Georgia in 21, according to Census data, but were 23% of the electorate, according to exit polls.
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The Beaumont metro area near the Louisiana border has a higher share of voting-age citizens (shown in purple here) than McAllen does on the Mexican border.
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There are an estimated 80 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 35, making Millennials the largest chunk of the voting-age population in the country.
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Fifty years later, there is a nascent movement to change the voting age again — this time to 16 — but there are some big differences between the efforts.
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While the upheaval of the 218s was centered on college campuses, today's activism is often found in high schools, and that shift has informed voting-age campaigns.
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In 31 of the key races, voters of color represent 20 to 20173 percent of the voting-age population and are positioned to have a significant impact.
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For the millions of voting-age Americans living outside the United States, it can seem like too much of a hassle to vote in elections back home.
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Mr. Espy needed a substantial turnout among black Mississippians, who made up more than a third of the voting-age population and historically sided with Democratic candidates.
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The Justice Department asked officials to add the citizenship question, saying it needed better data on the voting age population to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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But fewer than one-fifth of his followers are voting-age Americans, according to a Times analysis of Pew Research national surveys of adults who use Twitter.
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Knowing that 40 percent of Dearborn's population is Arab-American — including those who are not of voting age — doesn't automatically tell us how that 40 percent voted.
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Ross has said the citizenship question would help enforce the Voting Rights Act, which requires a tally of citizens of voting age to protect minorities against discrimination.
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In 221, when Congress turned to the 218th Amendment to justify lowering the voting age from 214 to 18 in state and local elections, the Supreme Court balked.
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New Hampshire has 424 state legislators, or one for every 2,557 residents of voting age (if California used the same ratio, it would have a 11,920-person legislature).
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Polls show that 46% of Americans of voting age have a "very unfavourable" opinion of Mr Trump, which suggests his chances of winning a general election are slight.
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However, Arizona's citizen voting-age population (CVAP)—in other words, those eligible to vote—is 67.6 percent non-Hispanic white, 20.5 percent Hispanic, and 11.9 percent other races.
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The House of Commons will not vote on opposition proposals to allow EU citizens to take part in parliamentary elections or to lower the voting age to 16.
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In non-presidential years, the Texas Democratic Primary tends to be a low-key affair, with statewide turnout involving only around 3 percent of the voting age population.
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Their lawsuit argues that state election officials elongated the district to include wealthy and largely white neighborhoods, diminishing the district's black voting-age population down to 50.8 percent.
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Bills are pending in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico to lower the voting age to 234 for primary or general elections.
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Even worse, only 46.7 percent of these voters registered — the lowest figure since the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971, lowering the voting age from 21 to 163.
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In Florida, more than 10 percent of the voting-age population is stripped of a voice at the polls, according to a 2016 report from the Sentencing Project.
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Any change would be particularly meaningful in Texas, where the citizen voting-age population is 143 percentage points more non-Hispanic white than the state as a whole.
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We found that African-Americans stand to play a key role in 21 of these races, making up from 7 to 24 percent of the voting-age population.
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" If you played an excerpt of his comments to an average voting-age American, he or she likely would say, "Okay, tell me what was wrong with that?
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On this day in 218, North Carolina became the 221th state to ratify the 183th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowered the national voting age to 218.
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Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16 "Young people ought to have a say in how school shootings are best prevented," states this Opinion essay writer.
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All told, the Democratic candidates are underperforming Clinton by an average of 14 points in districts where at least 50% of the citizen voting age population is Latino.
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The last time the voting age changed in the US was in 1971, when the 26th Amendment to the Constitution dropped the minimum age from 21 to 18.
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Latinos currently make up 8.4 percent of Congress, but they are 17 percent of the total US population and 10.7 percent of the total US voting-age population.
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But overall, the US ranks 26th out of 32 developed democracies when it comes to the percentage of voting-age people who actually participate in doing their civic duty.
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A 2015 study Hofeller conducted found that Republicans could use the new data to redraw voting districts based not on population but on the number of voting-age citizens.
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And just for perspective: My mom and aunt were the first black women in my family who weren't denied the right to vote when they reached voting age. Rep.
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The rallying cry, "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" came into fashion and the state of Georgia lowered its voting age from 21 to 18 in 1943.
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Amidst the upheaval caused by the Vietnam War, Congress lowered the voting age as part of the Voting Rights Act of 1970 but they didn't have the final say.
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In the poll of 1,005 Germans of voting age, carried out in October, 56 percent of Germans described the relationship with the United States as bad or very bad.
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The organization estimated in 2016 that nearly 1.5 million people in Florida have completed felony sentences but can't vote — about 9.2 percent of the voting-age population in Florida.
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Only around half of America's voting-age population cast a ballot in the last presidential election, a number that hasn't changed unchanged significantly for decades, according to Pew Research.
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The residents claim the state limited African-Americans' influence in other districts by requiring that all 12 districts have a black voting age population of at least 55 percent.
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More of them reach voting age every day, their voter registration is skyrocketing, and they are on track to comprise 40 percent of the eligible voting population by 85033.
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By the time I was 9 — halfway to voting age — I had lived on every miracle plan that my dad believed would make him thin and keep him thin.
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Florida barred ex-felons from becoming eligible to vote after serving their time, preventing 1.7 million Floridians from voting in 2016, including 1 in 5 black voting-age residents.
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York, 17, who laments not being able to go to endorsement meetings held at bars, says that youngsters have led the entire effort to get the voting age lowered.
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The administration has claimed that the change is needed to ensure enforcement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by providing better data on the citizenship of voting-age adults.
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Theirs was an early salvo in a movement that would end in 1971 with the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21.
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Only a fraction of the 60,000 Amish residents in Ohio and Pennsylvania are of adult voting age and even fewer are registered, since women are generally discouraged from voting.
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A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Tuesday shows that Trump's approval rating among voting-age Americans has fallen to 28500 percent, down from 6900 percent in early July.
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But as I grew closer to voting age, I started thinking more critically: What are the implications of someone having a massive platform and not making use of it?
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By 183, several states had lowered it to 18, 19, or 20, and in 1971 the 26th Amendment prohibited any state from setting the voting age higher than 18.
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If we took the citizen voting-age population map above and added these two new states, the District of Columbia would pick up one seat and Puerto Rico five.
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About 56 percent of voting-age Americans cast ballots in the last presidential election, a slight increase from 2012 but lower than 2008, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Of course, some coroners complete years of secondary education, but in many counties the laws can be extremely lax—they only need to be residents and of voting age.
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As these young leaders make common cause with African Americans and Latinos—the disproportionate victims of gun violence—and reach voting age, the possibilities of meaningful change will steadily grow.
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I can speak to my friends and family members who are of voting age and make sure that they understand how important making their voice heard at the polls is.
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Turnout in 2008 was around 131,407,000, the highest absolute number before or since and the highest share of the voting-age population to vote in a presidential election since 1968.
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More than 830 million Indians were eligible to vote in the last general election in 2014, more than three times the voting-age population of the United States in 220.
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The overall percentage of black Americans of voting age who cast a vote in 22016 fell to 22016% in 60.33 from 260.3% in 212.4, the first decline in 212.3 years.
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She did the same thing on lowering the voting age to 16, starting with, "I am really interested in having that conversation" and ending with -- after many, many words -- maybe.
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Notably, the passage of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, made 1972 the first election in which people ages 18 to 20 could vote.
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The average age of adult gamers in the U.S. is 2000 — well above voting age — and 23 percent are "certain" about their plans to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
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The proportion of voting-age Bolivians who are registered to vote has risen from about half in the 20093s to 86%, says Soledad Valdivia of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
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To offset the growing proportion of blacks and Hispanics in the voting age population, Trump must turn white voters out in greater numbers than Romney in cities such as Canton.
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Taking one related factor, EDS ran the numbers on each state's voting-age population in 2015 and found that Texas could actually lose a seat if that measure was used.
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The 2020 Democratic contenders and some liberals on Capitol Hill have embraced ideas such as expanding the Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College and lowering the voting age to 16.
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He says that in cities where the voting age has been lowered to 224, 173- to 217-year-olds vote at twice the rate of 2300- to 2300-year-olds.
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The report found that about 2628 percent of the estimated voting age population, or more than 28503 million people, voted in 22019, a 15-point increase from the 2014 midterms.
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Though Proposition F would make San Francisco the first major US city to lower the voting age to 16, two much smaller municipalities in Maryland have already adopted such measures.
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In 2013, Takoma Park — a small, progressive enclave in a suburb of Washington, DC — became the first city in the US to lower its local election voting age to 16.
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Read: The Right is trying to discredit the March for Our Lives by attacking a teenager It's unclear if Congress would try to stop D.C. from lowering the voting age.
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But the nation's capital is in a unique position to bring down the voting age as its city council serves as a municipal, county and state legislature all in one.
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The 26th amendment of the Constitution enacted in 1971 does not stop states from lowering the voting age below 18, but does explicitly say the age cannot be over 18.
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But as the young climate strikers gain the vote - one of the movement's demands is to lower Britain's voting age from 18 to 16 - that may well shift, Taylor said.
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Mr. Espy's ambitions rest on a robust turnout from black Mississippians, who represent about 36 percent of the voting-age population and usually side with Democratic candidates in large numbers.
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Mr. Goldstein supports the current effort, though he said part of him worried that lowering the voting age to 16 could lead to 16-year-olds serving in the military.
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We have Constitutional amendments that lay out a few fundamental rights — that women can vote, that 18 is the national voting age, that voting cannot be denied because of race.
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Latinos make up a much lower share of the citizen voting age population compared to the state in these districts, while college graduates make up a larger share than average.
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Its population of 160,000 has become increasingly diverse, with the citizen voting age population presently 51 percent white, 17 percent Latino, 16 percent Asian American and 15 percent African American.
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A good portion of the voting-age public seems to have some disturbing thoughts on the brain: Is this election more "Groundhog Day" or an episode of the "Twilight Zone"?
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A Harvard Institute of Politics poll found that 64 percent of young, voting-age Americans are more fearful about the future of democracy in the country than they are hopeful.
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The United States trails most other developed countries in voter turnout, with 56% of the voting-age population voting in 2016 (Canada's figure is 62% and Mexico is nearly 66%).
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If this country had a maximum voting age of 2628, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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"To fully enforce those requirements, the Department needs a reliable calculation of the citizen voting-age population in localities where voting rights violations are alleged or suspected," the letter said.
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"I think we will [achieve representational parity] eventually, but you have to remember that 17 percent of the population, not even half of them are voting age yet," said Rep.
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They believe he'll be able to mount a formidable challenge and mobilize black voters in a state where they make up more than a third of the voting-age population.
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Youth aged 16 and 17 were particularly engaged in the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014, causing politicians across the country to support lowering the voting age for all future elections.
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Hofeller, who died last August, conducted a study in 2015 about the citizen voting-age population and found it would be impossible to do without a citizenship question on the census.
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The goal is to draw districts based on citizen voting-age population, and not total population, which would skew political power—or, more accurately, rig the maps—for decades to come.
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More than 120 million Americans, or around 52 percent of the voting-age population, voted in last years's midterm elections, a report published Thursday by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) found.
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Members of Congress voted down an amendment to the Democrats' voting rights bill last Thursday that sought to lower the federal voting age to 16, an effort led by freshman Rep.
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Lowering local election voting age to 16 in major cities, in conjunction with the integration of civics classes in school, has been gaining support as a tenable way to boost turnout.
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Michelle from Rockville wonders if family views have an influence: I am a 16 year old who feels strongly about politics, but I don't think the voting age should be lowered.
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The proposal to lower the voting age to 16 is motivated by today's outrage that those most vulnerable to school shootings have no say in how such atrocities are best prevented.
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According to estimates from The Sentencing Project, 7.8 percent of voting-age Virginians were disenfranchised in 2016 because of their records — including 21.9 percent of all African Americans in the state.
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Voting experts point to the inconvenience of the day as one of a constellation of reasons that just 55.8 percent of the voting-age population voted in the last presidential election.
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New York University's Brennan Center for Justice released a breakdown of how the new funds would likely be distributed amongst U.S. states and territories, according to voting-age population on Tuesday.
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The move is part of a larger push to attract Japanese teens to vote, after a bill that lowered the voting age from 20 to 18 took effect earlier this month.
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Lowering the voting age has been discussed recently after long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew YangAndrew YangCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE made decreasing the federal voting age to 2202 one of his campaign positions, arguing that doing so would increase turnout, promote civic engagement and let young people have a say in their own future.
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The poll of 800 voting-age Americans finds that 15 percent are optimistic about the economy now and for the future, which is a record high in the poll's 11-year history.
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Our analyses of the House and Senate races combine FiveThirtyEight's projections of each individual congressional race with the US census's tabulations of citizen voting age populations in each congressional district and state.
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For years, District 1 was "an extraordinarily safe district for African-American preferred candidates", Justice Kagan explained, before North Carolina opted in 2011 to increase its already large black voting-age population.
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In 2016, like in 2012, only around 60 percent of the voting-age population cast a ballot, putting the US behind most developed countries when it comes to getting out the vote.
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In the 2016 presidential election, only 26 percent of the U.S.'s voting-age population cast a ballot for Donald Trump, fueling a democratic deficit with consequences that can be seen today.
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The result is that, whereas in 2005 measures of turnout using the voting-age population underestimated the true turnout by only about 1.7 percentage points, by 2017 the gap was 5.6 points.
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The district's black voting-age population has decreased and the district is also growing fast, with many retirees and others moving south across the border from the Charlotte, North Carolina, Huffmon notes.
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This has long been his goal: Japan lowered its voting age, in fact, because the opposition demanded it as a condition for supporting the bill that allowed a referendum on constitutional change.
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Municipal data show that the turnout in the last two elections among Jerusalem's voting-age Palestinians - who number around 220,000 - has hovered around 3 percent, suggesting deep grassroots disaffection with Jerusalem politics.
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Bayh authored two constitutional amendments during his time in Congress, one updating the line of succession following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and another lowering the voting age to 18.
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Shelby Johnson from Massachusetts thinks younger teenagers would vote how their parents do: As a 16 year old myself, I do not think that the voting age should be lowered to 16.
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The accompanying chart shows that the share of contributions donated by the top 0.01 percent of the voting age population grew from 16 percent in the 133s to 40 percent in 2016.
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Do you agree with the writer's proposal to lower the voting age to 16 so that those most vulnerable to school shootings have a say in how those shootings are best prevented?
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Mr. Blum took the issue to the Supreme Court in a 2016 case that sought to base Texas legislative maps on the number of voting-age citizens instead of on total population.
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In August 21625, for example, the Pew Research Center ranked the United States No. 2900 out of 220006 developed countries for voter turnout based on voting age populace amongst other democratic countries.
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Since the voting age was reduced to 18 from 21 in 1971, the "youth vote" has repeatedly tantalized liberal campaigns, only to see it underperform relative to their parents' on Election Day.
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The U.S. has some of the lowest voter participation rates among developed countries: Roughly 22% of the U.S. voting-age population voted in the 250 presidential election, according to Pew Research Center.
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Virginia State Board of Elections, No. 15-680, concerned a dozen voting districts drawn after the 2010 census, each with at least a 55 percent population of black residents of voting age.
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But they say that in 2016, almost 40 percent of the eligible voting age population did not cast ballots, and they maintain this group gives Trump ample opportunity to grow his vote.
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A principal reason he sought to lower the voting age was the Vietnam War, and the reality that many who fought in it were not old enough to vote for the presidency.
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One of the most common arguments against lowering the voting age is that 16- and 17-year-olds are not mature enough to take on the responsibilities of choosing our elected officials.
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My organization is also challenging the state's felon disfranchisement law, which affects an estimated 250,000 people here — 15 percent of Alabama's black voting age population, but fewer than five percent of whites.
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No case has tested whether the federal government possesses the power to prevent states from lowering their voting age below 18, since it has never tried to bar states from doing so.
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Her stories about her own mother's abused and abandoned childhood resonate deeply with African-American women -- and there are about 100,000 more black women than men of voting age in the state.
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Sainz favors a bill in the California Legislature that would lower the voting age to 17, which she thinks would give a voice to more people affected by the outcome of elections.
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A measure to lower the voting age to 16 for all local elections in San Francisco lost by a 52%-48% margin, which suggests the idea is close to passing in the future.
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This helped cut the state's disenfranchisement rate by more than two-thirds, from 1.4 percent of the state's voting-age population in 2010 to 0.4 percent in 2016, according to Sentencing Project estimates.
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Democrats were the pioneers: in 2006 party officials set up a company called Catalist which today offers one of the most comprehensive databases on Americans of voting age, covering more than 240m people.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for student pilots, companies that pay foreign income taxes, nuclear power plants with buried and underground piping and tanks, and voting age population estimates.
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They've hit back hard at Democrats opening the door to expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court, calls to abolish the Electoral College and to lower the voting age to 2023.
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The court document also asserts that Hofeller's 2015 study didn't find that asking about citizenship would impact redistricting, but rather that basing districts on citizen voting age population would have the resulting effect.
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Fifty-four percent of transgender citizens of voting age reported casting a vote in the 212 election, according to the NCTE survey, compared to 22015 percent of the U.S. population as a whole.
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No state has lowered the voting age, but some have passed legislation allowing teenagers to pre-register to vote and participate in primary elections if they will turn 18 by the general election.
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Anthe Dalkouras from Danvers thinks most 16-year-olds are not ready to vote: I do not agree with the writer's stance that the voting age should be lowered from eighteen to sixteen.
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But local, youth-led campaigns to lower the voting age have persisted since at least 2013, when Takoma Park, Md., gave 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections.
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At the time, the study's sponsor was considering whether to finance a lawsuit by conservative legal advocates that argued that counting voting-age citizens was not merely acceptable, but required by the Constitution.
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"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote," a slogan used by students from World War II through the Vietnam War, succinctly illustrates youth frustration with the voting age at the time, 21.
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In the redistricting that followed the 2010 census, the legislature nonetheless added 35,000 African-Americans of voting age to the district, while removing 50,000 whites, turning District 12 into a majority-black district.
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The majority of the voting age population under 220006 years of age are people of color, and minority groups have grown by 2202 percent since 2628, according to census estimates released this year.
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About 2628 percent of the voting-age population is 28503 or older; it's overwhelmingly white; and Republicans make up 22019 percent of registered voters in the district — a 17-point advantage over Democrats.
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Lowering the voting age does seem to help (at least a little bit) to create a population of high-participation, civically engaged voters — or, at least, it did so when Austria tried it.
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But that support has steadily eroded in recent years, as a younger generation of Cubans reaches the voting age and more recent arrivals have shown an eagerness to normalize relations with their homeland.
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Lowering the voting age could help foster a sense of civic duty before teens move away from home to attend college or start a job and become less motivated to vote, he added.
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"I live right around the corner from the Y," she says to a lifelong Democrat who brings her granddaughter, newly voting-age, onto the porch alongside her, a menagerie of animals squawking behind them.
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The single factor that best predicted the amount of votes that Republican's gained compared to 2012 is the share of voting-age citizens who are both white and do not have a college degree.
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The disenfranchisement estimates from Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia reflect this disproportionate system — one that strips more than one in five black voting-age citizens in those states of their most basic democratic right.
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BuzzFeed News talked to some of those young Kenyans about what they remember of the post-election violence, and how those experiences have shaped their views about politics now that they're of voting age.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has pledged NZ$100 million ($68 million) to cut greenhouse gas emissions, supported the strikes, saying teenagers should not wait for voting age to use their voices.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has pledged NZ$100 million ($68 million) to cut greenhouse gas emissions, supports the strikes, saying teenagers should not wait for voting age to use their voices.
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According to the American Bar Association, the one in seven people in the US of voting age who have a disability lag behind at the polls considerably in contrast with their non-disabled counterparts.
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But the justices left open the question of whether states must do this, or if — and this is where the citizenship question comes in — they can draw maps that count only voting-age citizens.
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In addition, a census that reveals with precision where noncitizens live is crucial to plans by some conservatives to base political districts not on total population, but on the number of voting-age citizens.
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The New York Times recently spoke with activists from the movement 163 years ago, and people on different sides of the issue today, about the cause and the challenges of lowering the voting age.
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And in Mississippi, which has the nation's highest proportion of black residents but where about 60 percent of the voting-age population is white, political lines are often drawn in parallel to racial ones.
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Outside Parliament, three 16-year-old friends who attend school together said they felt it was important to take part in the march even though they were still two years away from voting age.
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In the 2018 midterm elections, 55% of non-Hispanic black women voted, compared with 53% of the overall voting-age population and only 47% of non-Hispanic black men, per the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Whereas past calls for action were often ignored, an entire generation of climate activists is now reaching voting age, threatening to reshape the economy at the ballot box unless meaningful climate action is taken.
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In March, Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced an amendment to an electoral reform bill, HR 2100, that would lower the minimum voting age in the U.S. to 26 for federal elections starting in 2500.
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Cyrus Jarvis, 15, a London-based organizer for the UK Student Climate Network, one of the groups leading the movement in Britain, said its demands included lowering the legal voting age to 16 from 18.
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Such a law, the suit alleges, is racist in its origins and is biased in its effect, disenfranchising roughly 15 percent of Alabama's black voting age population, compared with fewer than 5 percent of whites.
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Census Bureau officials also warned that by reducing participation, asking the question could actually give the Justice Department a less accurate count of the voting-age citizen population than what's available with current statistical models.
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Among citizens of voting age in District 31, 47 percent are Hispanic, 36 percent are white and 15 percent are black, according to an analysis of census data by Andrew A. Beveridge, of Queens College.
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Virginia Democrats had challenged the 11 districts for the state's House of Delegates, which were drawn after the 2010 census, and each have a population with at least 55 percent black residents of voting age.
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In 22018 in Virginia, where Democrats won the governor and lieutenant governor races, white voters were 24% of voters in exit polls in 2018 and made up 65% of the voting age population in 2018.
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Since the 1972 election, the first in which the voting age was dropped from 21 to 18, the highest turnout in a presidential election was in 2008, when 61.6% of voting-eligible citizens cast ballots.
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Texas' voting-age citizens look demographically more like the entire state of Texas did in 2000, before the state grew more racially and ethnically diverse, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
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Eighteen-year-olds didn't always have the right to vote, but student activism in the 1960s, and particularly anger about the Vietnam War and the military draft, energized a movement to lower the voting age.
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That philosophy continued in 1971, when Congress lowered the voting age to 20163 in response to fury over the draft during the Vietnam War, which conscripted thousands of men between 18 and 21 into war.
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Many associations, non-profits, and corporate grassroots arms offer this technology on their own individual platforms, but this new initiative now opens those capabilities to nearly 198 million Americans that are of a voting age.
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But as this summer's trial over the 2020 census showed, Mr. Hofeller had extensively studied how using a different count — only American citizens of voting age, shortened to CVAP — would boost Republican fortunes in Texas.
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Virginia State Board of Election, No. 15-680, concerned 12 districts for the state's House of Delegates drawn after the 2010 census, each with at least a 55 percent population of blacks of voting age.
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Organizers of the British protests said their demands included more information about the "ecological crisis" in the national curriculum, declaration of a national "climate emergency" and a lowering of the national voting age to 16.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan, warned that the ruling could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in a state where the voting-age population is only about 600,000.
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But Arizona's 8th District trends even more toward Republicans: the GOP has a 17-point voter registration advantage, the district is overwhelmingly white and 2023 percent of the voting-age population is 55 or older.
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With other UKCSN activists, Possnett wrote an open letter calling on the UK government to declare a national climate emergency, to lower the voting age to 16 and include climate change in the national curriculum.
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Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first city to lower the voting age, thanks mostly to the advocacy efforts of youth themselves who convinced the city council that they should have a voice in local governance.
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Jackman and Spahn confirm this by matching up voter databases with respondents to the American National Election Survey (ANES), a widely cited in-person survey of about 2,000 voting-age people conducted every election cycle.
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The Justice Department had told Ross in December 2017 it needed the question and a localized production of "citizen voting-age population data" to probe any legislative districts that may be drawn to disenfranchise minority voters.
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The shift in perspective picks up speed as Northern Ireland's peacetime generation come of voting age, forcing new accountability from parties whose electoral monopoly previously relied on the tribal ethno-nationalistic politics of the old conflict.
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The voter-backed measure enfranchised roughly 1.5 million people, possibly tipping the massive swing state toward Democrats in the largest expansion of voting rights in Florida since the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971.
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The project says that the people it calls "the new American majority"—non-whites, unmarried women and 18- to 29-year-olds—comprise 62% of Georgia's voting-age population but just over half its registered voters.
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Ahmad Amireh, a native Ohioan and junior at nearby Duke University, described his excitement at being able to finally cast a vote for Mr. Sanders, as he was not of voting age during the 2016 election.
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RUSSELL MILLERWashington and Lee University School of LawLexington, Virginia Being myself 15 years old, I read with interest your leader calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16 ("Vote early, vote often", February 4th).
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There is also the issue of age — the data do not exclude people who are not of voting age, and Facebook tends to skew toward a younger audience, and so does the appeal of some candidates.
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Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter's showdown in 1980 drew an audience of 80.6 million Americans — which works out to about half of the 157 million voting-age Americans who lived in the country at the time.
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No, we're not talking about Hallmark Channel's birthday — it will finally be of voting age this August — but the number of new Christmas TV movies that you can expect in 20183, EW has learned exclusively. 40.
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At the meeting, some ministers said they believed online tools could be used to deepen direct democracy at local government level, such as via online referendums, and supported lowering the voting age from 18 to 16.
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Johnson will cancel plans to hold a snap election if parliament votes to lower the voting age or allows European Union citizens to vote because this will mean a six-month delay, his political spokesman said.
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In recent years, GOP officials and conservative legal groups laid the legal groundwork for states to redraw legislative maps after the 2020 census by using a state's citizen voting-age population instead of its total population.
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Behind Davis were young people with Afros and wearing bell-bottoms, there to remind TV viewers that it was Nixon who had prodded Congress to stop the military draft and lower the voting age to 18.
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Thirteen other states have introduced bills since 2003 to lower the voting age, some for just school board elections and some for all state elections, but none of the measures have passed, The Statesman Journal noted.
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Shortly before the caucuses, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate decried a "misinformation campaign" pushed by conservative activist group Judicial Watch, which inaccurately accused eight Iowa counties of having more registered voters than voting-age adults.
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Where she was undecided or unsure on an issue -- something that came up in questions about mandatory vaccines and lowering the voting age to 16 -- she simply said so, rather than offering a winding non-answer.
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Read more: Felons could be the swing vote in Roy Moore's Senate Race More than 1.5 million Floridians are currently barred from voting due to felony convictions, comprising some 20 percent of voting age black Floridians.
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These issues were mooted in 1971 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age for citizens to 18 years in all elections at both the federal and state levels.
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Still, only 22018 percent of eligible young people cast a ballot — far lower than other age groups, even though millennials are the largest demographic in the country and much of Gen Z is now voting age.
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Across the US, Europe, and South America, we've surveyed tens of thousands of people of voting age over the past several years in dozens of countries, asking them about a wide range of topics concerning politics.
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In Wisconsin, nearly 1 million voters cast ballots, or about 22 percent of the voting-age population, surpassing the 14 percent rate posted in both 2016 and 2014, according to a spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
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As recently as 85033, people of color represented only 7.1 percent of top Senate staffers despite making up more than 36 percent of the U.S. population and more than 28 percent of the citizen voting-age population.
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Yet it symbolized far more than simply achieving legal voting age or receiving the keys to a new car: In royal terms, the Crown Princess is now old enough to rule without the help of a regent.
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The data covers 94,790 polling places in 2012 and 92,740 in 2016, or about 20163 percent of electoral jurisdictions — and accounts for 233 million people in 2016, or more than 90 percent of the voting age population.
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To reach the highest proportion in the modern era — 50 percent of the voting-age population — nearly 125 million Americans, 44 million more than Monday's number, would have to tune in to watch the next presidential debate.
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But the Court didn't settle the question entirely, and instead set up what's likely to be the next battle: the Texas government's proposal to use citizen voting age population, rather than total population, to draw up districts.
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And even though two-thirds of voting age adults support wide access to reproductive health care and pregnancy prevention, the Trump administration plans to defund a national teen pregnancy prevention program, returning to abstinence-only sex education.
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Approximately 1.7 million Floridians, or more than 10 percent of the state's voting age population, are disenfranchised because of a criminal conviction, according to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning public policy institute.
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He also denounced Communist governments in Eastern Europe for abridging civil rights, mobilized what amounted to a fledging environmental movement, campaigned to lower the voting age to 18 and crusaded for the creation of a European Union.
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Recognizing that the participation gap is part of what has kept states like Texas from becoming more Democratic — despite a voting age population that is 183 percent Hispanic — Democrats in Arizona have undertaken an aggressive registration drive.
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But, in the years to come, that gap is projected to narrow: By 2060, the electorate is projected to be 46 percent white, just one percentage point higher than the white share of the voting-age population.
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One of the most powerful arguments for lowering the federal voting age from 21 to 85033 derived from the fact that those over 18 were, at the time, eligible for the draft despite being denied the vote.
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The House of Commons will not vote on opposition proposals allowing EU citizens to take part in parliamentary elections or lowering the voting age to 16, according to an official document showing the provisional selection of amendments.
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Luciana Berger, a Labour member of Parliament from Liverpool, made the case to the crowd on Sunday that the two million Britons who had reached voting age in the two years since a referendum deserved a vote.
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Up to 23,000 votes were affected, with a further 2,000 ruled out due to more serious violations such as when a handful of teenagers not yet of voting age were allowed to cast ballots, the ministry said.
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But taking into account the state's growing voting-age population, it was pretty much on par with the turnout in the past two cycles in which only one party had a competitive primary — a more apt comparison.
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So while I'd be happy about the voting age being lowered to 218 as Yang proposes, and such a plan is far more realistic than mine, it still falls short of our obligations to our fellow citizens.
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As noted by Sippel in his ruling, the imbalance is partly the result of the fact that, even though the district's voting-age population is split almost evenly along racial lines, fewer black people are registered to vote.
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But according to CNN, traditional TV viewership still made up 95 percent of the audience that watched the presidential primaries, so online streaming doesn't seem to fully explain why less of the voting-age population is tuning in.
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You can preregister or register to vote online now in a few simple steps, so during those 17 minutes, some schools are taking a few minutes out to do that for their students who are of voting age.
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That ruling said North Carolina officials used race as the predominant factor in drawing district lines without a compelling reason when they created two districts — the 28503st District and the 22019th District — with majority-black voting-age populations.
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Texas saw the highest percentage turnout by registered voters in a Texas midterm since 1970 when Democrat Lloyd Bentsen defeated Republican George H.W. Bush in a U.S. Senate election — and in that election, the voting age was 21.
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The decision followed a request by the U.S. Department of Justice, which seeks "to provide census block level citizenship voting age population, or CVAP, data that is not currently available from government surveys," Commerce said in a statement.
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Why it matters: Lowering the voting age to 16 from 18 is a direct attempt to capitalize on the post-millennial generation's brewing political activism and power that have been radically heightened by the country's increasingly polarized climate.
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Ross said in a memo that the Voting Rights Act requires a tally of citizens of voting age to protect minorities against discrimination, and that getting this information as part of the census would make it more complete.
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The rationale for selecting the age of 217 was entirely based on the military service age — there was little information, in the form of rational discourse, as to what the ideal voting age was when considering habit formation.
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Students: Read the entire article, then tell us: — At the end of the article, Professor Steinberg writes: The last time the United States lowered the federal voting age was in 1971, when it went from 21 to 18.
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Florida's Democrats would stand to gain some votes by extending the franchise, but the net gain of 48,000 votes is only about one-quarter of 1 percent of the more than 15 million people of voting age in Florida.
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Many federal circuit courts have decided that in Voting Rights Act suits, allegations that a state has diluted the minority vote have to be backed up with stats on the citizen voting-age population, not just the total population.
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Felon disenfranchisement disproportionately affects Americans of color nationwide, and the result is especially stark in Florida: The Sentencing Project estimates that one in five voting-age black adults in the state were disenfranchised under the state constitution's current rules.
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Between 403 and 240, according to the Census Bureau, adults aged 260 to 22010 made up less than a quarter of the population, but more than 43 percent of all movers and more than half of voting-age movers.
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In "Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16," Laurence Steinberg writes: The young people who have come forward to call for gun control in the wake of the mass shooting at their high school in Parkland, Fla.
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In a deep-red region, Athens is a liberal college town, and some community members took issue with what they saw as my kid-glove approach to climate skepticism among young Republicans (even those not yet of voting age).
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Without a constitutional amendment, states choosing not to lower the voting age to 18 would have had to maintain two sets of registries to provide separate ballots solely for federal elections to would-be voters ages 18 to 20.
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LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will not vote on allowing EU citizens to take part in parliamentary elections or lowering the voting age to 16, according to an official document showing the provisional selection of amendments on Tuesday.
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"All along the East River shoreline, both in Brooklyn and in Queens, there has been a growth in white voting-age citizens," said John Mollenkopf, a professor of political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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Many federal circuit courts have decided that in Voting Rights Act suits, allegations that a state has diluted the minority vote have to be backed up with stats on the citizen voting-age population — not just the total population.
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Our model predicts Trump Score using four constituency-level variables: Trump's margin of victory (or loss), white share of the voting age population, the percent of the constituency over the age of 25 with a bachelor's degree, and median household income.
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In fact, some of the closest races in the country are districts where more than 22012% of voting-age citizens are white: Minnesota's 22016st District, New York's 13nd, Michigan's 21th, New York's 22016th, Kentucky's 22016th, Michigan's 8th, and Kansas's 2nd.
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I was young, I wasn't of voting age when Chávez came to power — but my dad said we were going to end up like Cuba, [when Castro was in power] referring to Cuba as though it were like Syria or something.
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Government: No human rights violations At Friday's hearing, which was strictly kept within a one-hour time limit, representatives for the Dominican government said that all citizens of voting age can participate in the upcoming elections, including those of Haitian descent.
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The U.S. already has low national voter turnout, with only about 55.7 % of the voting-age population turning out to the polls for presidential elections, but in contrast, only between 13 % and 20 to 25 % of Americans vote in local elections.
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The company, including its top-rated Spanish-language network and many subsidiaries, is making an ambitious nationwide effort aimed at registering about three million new Latino voters this year, roughly the same number who have come of voting age since 19903.
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The most recent record in voter turnout during congressional midterm elections, when the White House was not on the line, came in 1982, when 49 percent of the voting-age population showed up to vote, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The RNC, for example, maintains a voter file of not just every registered Republican, but of everyone of voting age in the country — and campaign operatives are even gathering data on younger teenagers to figure out who to register first.
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But despite a lowering of the voting age to 21960 from 220 ahead of a July national poll, few see hope for a youth-driven movement like the one that energized U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign for Democratic Party presidential nomination.
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Before we touch on the rationale of lowering the voting age to 16 for local elections, it is important to step back and take a look at the current climate of civic engagement among young voters in the United States.
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But among the Americans who don't have a government-issued photo ID (according to one widely cited 2006 study, that's around 11 percent of voting-age US citizens — about 21 million people), racial minorities and senior citizens are way overrepresented.
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Still, Brandon Klugman, manager of the Vote16 campaign at Generation Citizen, which has aided local efforts in places like San Francisco and Washington, said that in 1939, support for lowering the voting age was near where it is now: 17 percent.
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Mr. Hofeller's charge was to assess the impact of drawing political maps that were not based on a state's total population — the current practice virtually everywhere in the nation — but on a slice of that population: American citizens of voting age.
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And a results-counting disaster could prove even more consequential in Nevada: The state's diversity — roughly 2 percent of voting-age residents are Latino, and another 10 percent are black — has made it a crucial part of the early primary season.
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With Mr. Trump in the White House, the obsession with politics that has many adult Americans fiercely focused on the Senate's latest confirmation hearing and the president's last Twitter message has filtered down to those not yet of voting age.
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Political leaders left, right and center must remember there are millions of working age — and voting age — adults yearning for the basic reading and math skills they need to get jobs and wages that will sustain their lives and their families.
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" Chief Justice John Roberts suggested he found that assertion reasonable, telling New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, who led off the challengers' arguments, "The CVAP, Citizen Voting Age Population, is the critical element in voting rights enforcement, and this is citizen information.
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The demands of British students include lowering the voting age to 16, whereas American school children are striking in support, among others things, of the Green New Deal, an environmental programme espoused most vociferously by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a new member of Congress.
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The Texas government took the position that it was okay to use total population, but that it also would have been okay to use a different measure of population — like the number of people in a district who were citizens of voting age.
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Two months after the election, final tallies are still being certified, but results to date show that nearly half of the eligible voting-age population cast a ballot in 6900—double the volunteer rate, which hit a low of 2628 percent in 28503.
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Today, some argue that the voting age should be lowered even further to 16, given that teenagers not only have a stake in their government, but possess what researchers call the necessary "cold cognition" to logically process facts and make informed decisions.
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In the clip, Feinstein appears bristly to the kids and stresses that she doesn't have to cave to their demands — her job is to represent her constituents, and it will be several Senate election cycles before these children will be of voting age.
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After lowering its voting age to 16, Austria saw a similar trend: 16- and 17-year-olds voted at higher rates than other young voters: Admittedly, voting turnout among all young voters (25 and under) is lower than turnout among older voters.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh, who authored a landmark 1972 law mandating equal opportunities for women in education and sports and wrote constitutional amendments on lowering the voting age and presidential disability, died on Thursday at the age of 91.
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Other countries reported much higher shares of their voting-age population turning out to vote in recent elections: 87.2 percent in Belgium, 66 percent in Germany, and 61.1 percent in the UK. Some of the difference is explained by differences in policies.
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The only existing tally of voting-age citizens, Mr. Hofeller's study stated, came from a statistical sample of the population largely used by the Justice Department to verify that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was ensuring the voting rights of minority groups.
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It was only in the first few pages, when Gillibrand relays the story of the strong women in her own family, that I wondered whether she wrote this book to educate children or to woo their parents (or babysitters of voting age).
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Mindful that Arab citizens want to see tangible improvements in their lives and to exert influence befitting one-sixth of the voting-age population, the Joint List's leader, Ayman Odeh, broached the possibility of entering a center-left government under Mr. Gantz.
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Mindful that Arab citizens want to see tangible improvements in their lives and to exert influence befitting one-sixth of the voting-age population, the Joint List's leader, Ayman Odeh, broached the possibility of entering a center-left government under Mr. Gantz.
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Other countries reported significantly higher shares of their voting-age population turning out to vote in recent elections: 87.2 percent in Belgium, 69.1 percent in Germany, and 63.3 percent in the UK. Some of the difference is explained by differences in policies.
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In 2016, more than 43,000 people out of a black voting-age population of more than 2.3 million, or 17.9 percent of potential black voters in Florida, had finished sentences but couldn't vote due to a felony record, according to the Sentencing Project.
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With just 59% of voting-age citizens turning out in 0.63, among the lowest rates in the rich world, campaigns have far more room to convince a few extra people to vote at all than they do to convince grizzled partisans to change teams.
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BRENT LAYTONChairElectricity AuthorityWellington, New Zealand Youth and democracy* Research shows that voting intentions are formed at a young age, so I very much agree with you that there is a strong case for reducing the voting age to 16 ("Vote early, vote often", February 4th).
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In 2016, more than 418,000 black people out of a black voting-age population of more than 2.3 million, or 17.9 percent of potential black voters in Florida, had finished sentences but couldn't vote due to a felony record, according to the Sentencing Project.
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Inflaming tensions An amendment to the Referendum Act passed in January that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and decreased the number of signatures needed to initiate a referendum enabled those pushing for a name change to put the decision to the public.
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That was true in 1972, the first national election after the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18, and it was true for the 2018 midterms, when the youth share of the vote was 13 percent even as youth turnout more than doubled.
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The files included a study in which Mr. Hofeller concluded that a citizenship question was central to a strategy to increase Republican political power by excluding noncitizens and persons under voting age from the census figures used for drawing new political boundaries in 2021.
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In March, when Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts proposed a 16-year-old voting age amendment to House Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill, it failed 126 to 305, with almost half of her fellow Democrats voting against it and only one Republican in support.
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The Voting Age Coalition got New Jersey legislators to ratify the amendment, which swept across the country faster than any previous constitutional amendment, gaining the necessary support from three-quarters of the states in just 100 days and becoming law on July 216, 219.
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But a problem for Democrats is that they may well be at the height of their ability to activate voters who rarely vote, according to a Catalyst analysis of 2018: 26 turnout reached 217% of the citizen voting-age population, 215 points higher than 215.
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LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will cancel plans to hold a snap election if parliament votes to lower the voting age or allows European Union citizens to vote because this will mean a six-month delay, his political spokesman said. Dec.
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Well, let's do them one better: The United States should consider eradicating the voting age entirely and letting every American citizen who can successfully fill out a ballot be counted in our local, state, and national elections (and yes, this goes for felons too).
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The manifesto unveils plans for a democratic "revolution", reducing the voting age to 16, extending full voting rights to foreign residents, creating a Constitutional Commission, advised by a citizens' assembly, and a host of other measures to "put power in the hands of the people".
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We already undercount black and Latino residents as it is, and the fear is that it would further exacerbate this miscount: The Trump administration has argued that the citizenship question is needed on the census to get a better count of voting-age citizens.
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In 2016, more than 43,000 black people out of a black voting-age population of more than 2.3 million, or 17.9 percent of potential black voters in Florida, had finished sentences but couldn't vote due to a felony record, according to the Sentencing Project.
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A study first conducted in 2015 and revised last month from researchers at Dartmouth College and the Australian National University showed that at least 1% of voting-age adults who would have voted blue if the weather had been good, voted Republican instead on rainy election days.
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"We take this opportunity to call on all people of voting age to do their civic duty and present themselves at polling stations as soon as possible, so that this exercise can be concluded," he told reporters after casting his ballot in his home village of Ngozi.
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Raul Alvillar, the national political director for the Democratic National Committee, says the party has demographics on its side, as a wave of young people reach voting age, and the party, through a series of training initiatives, is trying to inspire them to run for local office.
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This generation is just reaching the legal voting age — members only accounted for about 4 percent of the votes in 2018 — which is why their impact will likely be more significant during the 2020 presidential election, when they'll make up about 10 percent of all eligible voters.
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Plaintiffs pointed out that no Latino had ever been elected to the City Council in the 37-year history of the current system, even though Latinos at the time accounted for more than one-third of the city's voting-age population, and one quarter of eligible voters.
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It does not include lowering the federal voting age, but at least one prominent Democrat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, likes the idea, although she made clear when she endorsed it recently that it's not the position of her caucus of Democrats in the House.
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According to the Brennan Center for Justice, where I am a senior fellow, more than 6 million of our fellow citizens can't vote because they have a criminal conviction, so much so that one in every 13 voting-age African Americans lacks the ability to vote.
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One example is the Swedish Conservative Party (AVF) during the 1930s: The AVF's youth group (an organization of voting-age activists), called the Swedish Nationalist Youth Organization, grew increasingly radical in the early 1930s, criticizing parliamentary democracy, openly supporting Hitler, and even creating a group of uniformed storm troopers.
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And since the 2016 US election, Facebook has become a breeding ground for conspiracy theories, fake news, and propaganda, as well as a vital espionage and misinformation outlet for foreign governments, some of which, like Russia, have run widespread influence campaigns to create chaos among voting-age Americans.
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The point is, in a country whose most elegant quality is the fact that we reform our democracy, that we move to the direct election of Senators, that we adjusted the voting age, we've done things over the years to shore up our democracy, often by Constitutional amendment.
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Imse will be facing off with three other candidates in the Democratic primary on Tuesday night, including James Ehlers, an environmental activist, Brenda Siegel, a dance festival organizer, and 14 year-old Ethan Sonneborn in a state that doesn't mandate gubernatorial candidates be of a certain voting age.
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Ayanna PressleyAyanna PressleyScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat Joseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts MORE (D-Mass.) introduced an amendment in March to lower to the voting age to 2628.
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Now, it&aposs worth remembering the Center for Immigration Studies estimates if this House language, like that in the Gang of Eight Bill, were to prevail in the Senate, we could be looking at 32 million new voting-age adults living in the United States by the year 2036.
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The North Carolina ruling tossed out the state's requirement that voters present photo identification at the polls and restored voters' ability to register on Election Day, to register before reaching the 18-year-old voting age, and to cast early ballots, provisions the law had fully or partly eliminated.
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We are giving political speeches at our walkouts, emailing congress, writing letters and marching for justice, we are more than capable to vote Sammie from California said lowering the voting age would give more teens an opportunity: Teenagers today are much more exposed to politics thanks to the internet.
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But that is changing in some corners, and American Indians have the potential to sway elections in states like Montana, where they make up 7 percent of the voting-age population; New Mexico, where they are more than 10 percent; and Alaska, where they are more than 17 percent.
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Although the specific ages used for these purposes often lack a good rationale, there is no reason lowering the voting age would require lowering, say, the drinking age, any more than allowing people to drive at 16 should permit them to drink or smoke at that age as well.
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Ayanna PressleyAyanna PressleyTrump lashes out at the media, Democrats in Labor Day tweets Before we destroy their future, let's give them the right to vote Only a President Biden would rid us of the Trump era MORE (D-Mass.) introduced an amendment to lower the voting age to 2628.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan, warned that the ruling could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, including both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, in a state where the voting-age population is only about 600,000, citing a district court's findings.
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"It's time to lower the voting age in Oregon and give young people a chance to participate at the ballot about decisions that affect their homes, their clean air and clean water future, their schools, and as we've seen, their very lives," Fagan said at a press conference.
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" Critics of the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question point to a newly disclosed 2015 study written by the late Dr. Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting expert, who wrote that using "citizen voting age" population as the redistricting population base would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.
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The NAACP has estimated that 25% of African-Americans and 16 perceent of Latinos of voting age lack a current government-issued photo ID. Critics have likened the voter ID laws to the poll tax used in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a method to prevent blacks from voting.
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In other news, a campaign is underway to get the voting age in the United States lowered to 16 from 18, and the national high school graduation rate hit a record high in the 2013-14 school year — though questions persist about how well-prepared students are for what comes next.
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City residents who are of legal voting age, not in prison or on parole for a felony conviction, and are parents, legal guardians, or legally recognized caregivers of children under the age of 19 living in San Francisco, can register to vote in school board elections -- regardless of legal immigration status.
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The USC analysis found that Latinos constitute one-third or more of the eligible voting-age population in 34 districts voting today, all of them in California and Texas; they also represent one-fourth to one-third of eligible voters in another dozen districts, again all in those two mega-states.
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However, when ABC and the Washington Post posed the same question to a wider group of adults of voting age (not just registered voters), the Democratic spread was better — a 10-point margin, with 50 percent of adults saying they preferred the Democratic candidate and 40 percent preferring the Republican.
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They included a study that Mr. Hofeller prepared for a major Republican donor in 2015, which concluded that the next round of redistricting could be swayed to Republicans' advantage in some states by excluding mostly Hispanic noncitizens and people under voting age from the population totals used to draw political maps.
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The files show that the strategist, Thomas B. Hofeller, had outlined in 2015 how Republicans could gain political power by basing new political maps on the number of voting-age citizens instead of total population — a strategy, he wrote, that could only be realized with data from a census citizenship question.
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The American Civil Liberties Union -- which says 20% of the black voting age population in Florida has been disenfranchised due to a felony conviction -- has argued that the state has not provided guidance to voters or local election supervisors, having a chilling effect on voters with a conviction who fear prosecution.
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A new poll from Morning Consult takes a detailed look at the views of what it calls "Gen Z adults" — basically people between the ages of 18 and 21 — and finds that national identity is strikingly less important to the youngest voting-age Americans than it is to older ones.
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I raise these numbers to point out that, contrary to claims that American political parties have to appeal broadly to win, they only need to win a quarter of the voting-age population to gain unified control of government in Washington, and their presidential nominee needs to win far less than that.
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We combine Catalist's probabilistic estimates of the race/ethnicity of these early voters with state-level figures on the population eligible to vote, using data from the Census Bureau's American Communities Survey (ACS) and Population Estimates Program (PEP) to project the citizen voting-age population (CVAP) in November 22018, 22014, 2016, and 2018.
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From the historic Sweet Auburn market not far from Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, in beauty parlors and black-owned restaurants, every black woman who spoke to me had somehow tried to turn out votes, whether by canvassing, texting, rousting their voting-age children or cajoling their employees and co-workers.
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However, as parties look to broaden their reach with younger voters, with both Labour and the Liberal Democrats seeking to lower the voting age from 20213 to 16, CNBC decided to take a look at policies besides Brexit, to see where each party stands on the biggest financial issues affecting young Britons.
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Max Frost, a 20143-year-old rock musician (Christopher Jones, star of the short-lived TV series "The Legend of Jesse James"), dupes a pandering, 37-year-old senator (Hal Holbrook, hair combed over his forehead in the style of Robert Kennedy's) into supporting an amendment that would lower the voting age to 14.
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Originally passed during the height of the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped register millions of voters -- many of whom were voters of color -- and paved the way for other democracy reforms such as lowering the voting age to 18 and requiring translated voting materials for citizens with limited English skills.
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Young Mie Kim, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the study's lead author, and a team of researchers analyzed 287 million paid ads shown to a group of 287,519 individuals who model the US voting-age population in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, from September 28 to November 8, 2016.
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Since 212, 216 states have adopted automatic voter registration; voters in Florida will decide in November on a ballot initiative to restore voting rights to felons; in New York and Virginia, Democratic governors have done so (in the case of New York extending these rights to parolees); and the District of Columbia may lower its voting age to 220103.
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The number of voting-age citizens is one measure used to determine whether the minority population in a legislative district is sufficient to determine an election, and the department said the results of the American Community Survey, a smaller annual review that covers about 10 percent of the population each decade, were too imprecise to be reliable.
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He pointed to Moon's ambitious domestic agenda as where the South Korean leader faces his "greatest risks and challenges," particularly his efforts to revise South Korea's constitution to allow the President to serve two five year terms instead of one, as well as weakening the power of the office and reducing the voting age to 18.
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Nationwide, 25 percent of African-American and 15 percent of Latino citizens of voting age do not possess state-issued photo IDs, whereas only 8 percent of white voters do not have such an ID. While we all care about election integrity, passing restrictive measures that make it harder for some eligible voters to vote is not the answer.
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Before we get to that, here are just a few statistics to ponder: In 211, there were 219 million people of voting age in the US, but only 19 million actually cast ballots in the general election — a turnout rate of just 58.6 percent (this excludes those ineligible because they're convicted felons or noncitizens, but it's a commonly used metric).
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He played the lead role in defeating two of Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees; and was the principal architect of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability; the 26th amendment, changing the voting age to 18; and the landmark Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which provided a powerful impetus to more equal treatment of women in intercollegiate sports.
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Rep. Ayanna PressleyAyanna PressleyScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat Joseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts MORE (D-Mass.) on Tuesday introduced an amendment to the House election reform bill that would lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in federal elections.
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That 244.8 million Americans includes nearly 21 million voting-age non-citizens living in the US. That only a little more than a quarter of adults voted for either Trump or Clinton in the election is an extreme reminder that about half of the population over the age of 18 either wasn't interested enough in the election or was too disgusted by both candidates.
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And thanks to the evolution and adoption of these technologies by nearly all voting age consumers, out-of-home media is poised to capitalize on these seismic industry shifts that have yielded more sophisticated targeting and measurement solutions, turning billboards not only into a power-house mass audience engagement medium, but one that can be used to target voters using digital insights and audience targeting techniques.
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Ayanna PressleyAyanna PressleyScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat Joseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts MORE's (D-Mass.) amendment to reduce the voting age to 85033 and expand online voter registration creates the opportunity for an even more inclusive democracy to emerge, bringing an estimated eight million Americans into our electoral process.
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Rep. Ayanna PressleyAyanna PressleyScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat Joseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts MORE (D-Mass.) sparked a fresh debate over whether younger teenagers are old enough to vote in federal elections when she introduced an amendment that would lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
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The crude theater of this presidency does not play well with people who came of voting age following leaders like President Reagan, President George H.W. Bush or President George W. Bush, or congressional figures such as Jack Kemp and Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanJudd Gregg: Honey, I Shrunk The Party The Hill's Morning Report — Dems detail case to remove Trump for abuse of power Social security emerges as latest flash point in Biden-Sanders tussle MORE.
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