What’s the big objection to lowering the voting age?
OPINION: We hear that impressionistic 16-year-olds will just vote the way their parents do.
Lowering the voting age at general elections requires a 75% ‘super majority’ of Parliament to pass.
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New Zealand should lower the voting age to 16. What’s the big objection?
We hear that having 120,000 more people who don’t pay tax having a say in how public money is spent is not a great idea. Well, that’s not true for many 16-year-olds, who can leave school, work full-time and pay taxes, and
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