Danny de Gracia
Honolulu Civil Beat
Excerpt:
Proposals to lower the voting age to 16, both at the local level and nationally, have been a recurring topic over the last two decades. Rooted in a policy desire to increase the overall size of the potential voting population and also to give younger people a bigger stake in our representative democracy, the movement has seen increased traction particularly as young people graduating from high school face dismal job prospects and skyrocketing costs of higher education.