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Are 16-year-old voters the key to future-proofing democracy?

A school pupil leaves a polling station in Edinburgh, having cast her vote in Scotland's independence referendum on 18 September, 2014. AFP - LEON NEAL

In the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer's Labour government has announced plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 for all future elections, in a bid to "modernise democracy". But for the handful of other countries who have made the move, results have been mixed.

On 17 July, the UK government announced a major overhaul of the country's electorate.

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