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Closed Lower the voting age to 16.

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1.5 million young people in the UK are denied a political voice. 16 year olds can give full medical consent, leave school and enter employment, pay income tax, obtain tax credit and welfare, get married or enter a civil partnership, join the armed forces and have sexual relations... why not vote?

More information here: http://www.votesat16.org/about/

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    This petition will stay open until 23 January 2016.