THE JOINT COMMITTEE on Election Laws recently voted a bill favorably out of committee that would expand democracy and signal a tide change in how Massachusetts weighs punishment, rehabilitation, and dignity in the criminal legal system. The bill, S.8/H. 26, filed by Sen. Liz Miranda and Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven, would return the right to vote […]
Adam Eichen
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Give 16-year-olds the right to vote
IN 1971, AFTER INTENSE youth advocacy, the United States lowered the voting age to eighteen through the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution. Although some people had advocated for decades to lower the voting age, success came due to the crisis of the Vietnam War: young people were being sent to die, yet had no […]