Talk:Voting age
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ithank you for enlightening me in the discussion of the voting age. I may be only 14 but i will soon be 16 and i hope to be mature enough to praticipate in being an active citizen and deciding who is going to be the leader of my country. I would be very pleased to know that I had an impact on who sucessful or unsucessful our country is doing.
-ariel
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[edit] CIA World Factbook
Thanks Jusjih for all of the additional info. --Ross UK 21:45, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Map
An excellent map Jklamo, thanks a lot. --Ross UK 22:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Youngest of any country"
I don't see the need to make this remark for Iran, as the fact in question is easily discernable from the list itself. --Ross UK 21:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Iraq
"Iraq: formerly 18 years of age; universal". Should it say "formally"? (If so, in what sense?) If not, what is the current minimum age? --21:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some recent amendments
We can be confident of the changes for the Isle of Man (reduced to 16) and Uzbekistan (25, whether or not recently changed) [1]. Iran's very disappointing increase to 18 has been ratified and is verifiable [2]; a shame as this was previously the most interesting factoid on the voting age.
The others are more doubtful. I can find no verification for municipal elections in Berlin, so that will have to go until a source can be found. I would dearly love a national reduction to 16 in the Netherlands to be true, even though I want the UK to be the first, but again there is no source. --Ross UK 22:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
