Submitted on Sunday 26th June 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 28th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow 16 year olds to vote in referendums that will have impacts upon them.
Young people are affected by politics and not allowing young people, who will be most affected by constitutional change or a change in membership of international bodies like NATO, the UN and the EU, to vote on referendums of this nature, flies in the face of democracy.
Regardless of potential effects on the outcome, students and workers aged 16+ should be allowed to have there voices heard in a national referendum. Referendums are rare occurrences and as someone who was unable to vote in the EU referendum due to being a meagre 5 months too young, and aware of some who missed the vote by mere days, it is a truly effective way to disenfranchise young people with politics at a time where falling turnout in elections is a poltical crisis.
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