Britain will be like Ecuador, Austria and Brazil. 16-year-olds will vote

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The UK government has announced that the voting age will be reduced from 18 to 16. The low turnout in erstwhile parliamentary elections in 2024 raised concerns about citizens' assurance in democratic procedures and the change, including the simplification of the age of active electoral law, was to be a recipe for this.