http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...o-16-1.3089557
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Lethbridge city council wants to lower the municipal voting age to 16 in hopes of improving long-term voter turnout.
Councillors approved the resolution this week and the issue will go the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association for approval. Alberta would then have to change the act governing municipal elections.
Jeff Coffman, the Lethbridge city councillor behind the idea to lower the voting age, said capturing the attention of youth might improve the participation rate in elections.
The hook is definitely to get them interested early, to get them participating earlier. There's lots of academic research at the federal level that if you can get someone to vote the first time they get out of the gate… it creates what we call a sticky habit and it gives them the propensity for them to vote throughout their life."
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I am not sure I think 16 yr olds make the best decisions.