re: #12 wrenchwench

One of the features of the Scottish independence referendum a couple of years ago was that 16-year-olds were permitted to vote; the normal voting age for elections is 18. The case for this exception was made that they were going to have to live with the decision to leave the UK, if it came to that, for longer than anyone else.

Interviews and research later showed that people younger than 18 who voted took it very seriously and generally did not treat it as a joke. This has led to some pressure to move the age limits down to 16 for all other elections in the future. It’s not happened yet but the experiment was a success.