22 Nov 2022

16-year-olds may get to vote at local body elections

From Checkpoint, 5:16 pm on 22 November 2022

The campaign to lower the voting age for general elections is dead in the water, but 16-year-olds might get a vote at the local body level.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled the voting age of 18 was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act.

But the road to change is a rocky one.

RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch has the details.

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