voting age
Electoral maturity minimum
Voting age is the minimum age at which a person can legally vote in elections.
In most democracies, the voting age is eighteen, though some jurisdictions set it at sixteen or twenty-one.
The term often appears in debates about civic participation: Should we lower the voting age to sixteen?
Organized public voting
- ballotVoting document
- pollsOpinion surveys or voting sites
- electorateEligible voting body
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
parliament · senate · representative · legislation · amendment · policy · federal · assembly
State of being grown
- majorityOver half of total
- eighteenNumber after seventeen
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
teenager · youth · young adult · rite of passage · independence · responsibility · maturation · adult
Granting citizenship rights
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- turnoutNumber attending an event
- eligibilityState of meeting criteria
- franchiseLicensed business operation
disenfranchisement · residency requirement · absentee · proxy · poll tax · literacy test
Right to cast ballots
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- political rightsEntitlements to participate civically
- universal suffrageAll adults may vote
- women's suffrageVoting rights for females
nineteenth amendment · constitutional right · equal protection
Legal national member
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- civic dutyObligation owed to community
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
resident · immigrant · denaturalization · civic responsibility · local election · state election · municipal · naturalized citizen
election
Organized public voting
- ballotVoting document
- pollsOpinion surveys or voting sites
- electorateEligible voting body
referendum · parliament · senate · representative · legislation · amendment · policy · federal · assembly · plebiscite
adulthood
State of being grown
- majorityOver half of total
- eighteenNumber after seventeen
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
adolescence · teenager · youth · young adult · rite of passage · independence · responsibility · maturation · adult · developmental milestone
enfranchisement
Granting citizenship rights
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- turnoutNumber attending an event
- eligibilityState of meeting criteria
franchise · disenfranchisement · residency requirement · absentee · proxy · poll tax · literacy test
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- political rightsEntitlements to participate civically
- universal suffrageAll adults may vote
women's suffrage · nineteenth amendment · constitutional right · equal protection
citizen
Legal national member
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- civic dutyObligation owed to community
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
nationality · resident · immigrant · denaturalization · civic responsibility · local election · state election · municipal · naturalized citizen · birthright citizenship
- age-related termschildhood, adulthood, infancy, toddler years, puberty
- age limitslearner permit, legal capacity, eighteen, sixteen, twenty-one
- UK electionsballot, general elections, general election, by-election, candidate
- voting rulesresidency requirement, registration deadline, registration requirements, eligibility check, residency requirements
- youth civicsyouth activism, student activism, youth empowerment, youth movements, student government
- youth rightschild protection, child custody, child labor laws, child support, juvenile justice
voting ageretirement age
Standard work-ending milestone
age of majority · pension age · drinking age · driving age · age of consent
voting ageresidency requirement
Rule demanding local dwelling
voter registration · registration deadline · literacy test · poll tax
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