Lowering the Voting Age-National Youth Rights Association (NYRA)
Project Manager: Jeffrey Nadel
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Facebook Page: http://bit.ly/4PwJi
Website: http://www.youthrights.org/votingage.php
A group of teenagers working with NYRA created videos (thanks to donated Flip video cameras as part of the Award) to expand their voice, give testimonials and present reasons why they should start voting at sixteen. They plan to reach the general public and their peers to pass legislation lowering the voting age at the local, state and federal level. Serious proposals in Massachusetts and California have started discussion on the voting age in the media and legislative bodies. NYRA chapters in New York, Florida and California are joining groups around the country working actively to lower the voting age. Lowering the voting age is an idea whose time has come. Serious proposals from the United Kingdom to Massachusetts to California have started discussion on the voting age and NYRA is getting involved with it. NYRA chapters in New York and California are joining groups around the country working actively to lower the voting age. NYRA has created this resource for all people and groups interested in the issue. Read our top 10 reasons to lower the age, check out our talking points, and read some great research on the subject by Keith Mandell and Ben O’Meara.
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