The Winter Olympics will be getting started in a few weeks in Italy, but the efforts to lower the voting age to 16 is just heating up.
This past week, I had the pleasure of delivering public comment’s to Los Angeles’ Charter Reform Commission, who is looking at rewriting the city’s charter laws, including whether to incorporate language into the city’s charter on lowering the voting age to 16. This is big news, as the charter hasn’t been officially revised since 1999.
While the Charter Reform Commission is dissolving, it is now being replaced by an ad hoc committee, which will continue the process. Fortunately, sentiments to retain language & dialog to lower the voting age to 16 have survived & continue to be in the conversation.
You can watch my & other supporters’ public comments on the video below, which are around the first half hour mark.
Because of lowering the voting age group’s strong showing, it is believed that this has helped continue the dialog as the talks continue & transition to the ad hoc committee. It is from there that the work continues.
Let’s keep up the pressure!
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