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Daniel Weinstock - Should Adolescents Vote?

The Curious Task

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The Future of Voting Ages

I think that 16 is the next big threshold. And again, it's a threshold that has been, you know, reached by at least one sovereign country,. Austria decided to lower the voting age to 16. It hasn't suffered huge economic or political consequences from having lowered the age to 16 Scotland, which is not a sovereign country. Scottish voters can can vote for most or all, but they can't vote in UK elections. But I think in Scotland, they can vote to 16. So they're already, we're moving in that direction. That kind of stuff, when you know, those types of rights of passages and taking on more responsibility and so on and so forth, that's

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