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To: Ivan Lewis, MP of Prestwich

Vote at 16

Lower the voting age to 16 so 16 and 17 year olds will be able to vote.

Why is this important?

It isn't fair that 16 and 17 can't vote for who will make important decisions for their future. They should be able to decide who they want making these decisions as they also get affected by the changes. It isn't fair that people can make the decision on who runs their future but they can't so we think that the voting age should be brought down.

Our reasons for this is 16 year olds already have many opportunities like:
leaving school
working full time
paying taxes
getting married
having consenting sex and having a child
leaving home
joining the armed forces.
They are also responsible for any criminal action and can go to jail.
We think that all of these show responsibility and adultery so we don't understand why 16 year olds aren't seen as mature enough to do something as "simple" as voting.
Another reason we have is people of this age have a bit of knowledge about politics and actually, a lot of people are interested in it. We have found out that a lot of people would vote at 16 if they had the chance and they don't want to wait another two years to make an impact in the government.
The only thing is, a lot of people don't think that we are educated enough about politics. In our questionnaire, 18 out of 120 people said that they think we are. This would definitely need to be changed because they need to have a wider knowledge on the subject so they know about it before this action takes place.

How it will be delivered

We are going to email the signatures to Ivan Lewis

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Updates

2015-12-11 13:25:57 +0000

50 signatures reached

2015-12-11 11:23:32 +0000

25 signatures reached

2015-12-11 10:49:56 +0000

Sending Ivan Lewis another letter today because we haven't got a reply yet.

2015-12-11 09:01:32 +0000

10 signatures reached