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What’s the big objection to lowering the voting age?

OPINION: We hear that impressionistic 16-year-olds will just vote the way their parents do.

Lowering the voting age at general elections requires a 75% ‘super majority’ of Parliament to pass.

New Zealand should lower the voting age to 16. What’s the big objection?

We hear that having 120,000 more people who don’t pay tax having a say in how public money is spent is not a great idea. Well, that’s not true for many 16-year-olds, who can leave school, work full-time and pay taxes, and

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