Meighan-Thiel also pushed back against the notion that young people will vote exclusively for progressive or left-wing causes and candidates. The study cites voting as an activity tied to cold cognition, noting that the process gives young people ample time to make rational, informed decisions, potentially with guidance from adults. The researchers found that "cold cognition" - the ability to make rational, usually long-term decisions, without being overly influenced by emotions - tends to reach its capacity by age 16.īy contrast, "hot cognition" - making in-the-moment choices in "charged situations where deliberation is unlikely or difficult" - doesn't fully develop until early adulthood. When asked whether teens are mature enough to vote, she points to a 2019 study published by the National Institutes of Health about adolescent cognitive capacity. Meighan-Thiel says it's Gourley's right to oppose the measure, but she disagrees with his arguments. Meighan-Thiel writes personalized notes on door hangers in support of Measure VY. Gourley did not respond to a request for comment from As It Happens. After that, they plan to ask you to approve voting by illegal aliens in Culver City, as they currently can in New York City." What will they want you to approve NEXT election? Their next goal is to allow people who DON'T live in Culver City to vote in Culver City. In an official city form outlining his opposition, he wrote: "The Proponents of this measure want you to approve 16-and-17-year-old voting this election. "These are not elections with training wheels so your children can 'warm up' for the BIG elections," Gourley wrote on his No On VY website. Steven Gourley - a former Culver City mayor, councillor and school board president - has been leading the charge against the measure. 'These are not elections with training wheels'īut there is ardent opposition to the proposal, and not everyone is so easily swayed. Often, she says, a 20-minute conversation with a skeptical voter is enough to either change their mind, or at least open it. She says people's opinions on the voting age are not deeply entrenched the way opinions are on other issues, like, for example, abortion. Young people who are advocating for a lowered voting age in Culver City, from left to right: Miles Griffin, Michelle Zhou, Meighan-Thiel, Julia Rottenberg, Caitlin Polesetsky, Lilly Salkin and Ava Frans. Therefore, I don't think you would be a good voter either.'" "But we also get people who are more hesitant and say, 'Oh, well, when I was 16 I wouldn't have been a good voter. "Sometimes we get people who are really in support of us, who are inspired by the work that they're doing and excited for their children who might be able to vote when they turn 16," she said. Reaction, she says, has been divided, and she expects Tuesday's vote will be close.
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She's been spending her free time going door to door making her case. Ada Meighan-Thiel, lower voting age advocate
"And then a third reason is just increasing the attention paid to our local elections, because politics is important, even if it's not always fun to deal with." Teens are affected by government issues, so they should deserve a say in what's happening. "And also by doing this, it will raise the generation of habitual voters - so people that really understand the importance of having their say at the ballot box, and will be well-informed, lifelong voters in the future. "For me, it kind of comes down to encouraging civic engagement and really instilling a value of democratic participation in our youth," she said. Meighan-Thiel says her main reasons for wanting to lower the voting age are threefold. "Really, this is only the beginning for enfranchising our teens." The case for lowering the voting age "Culver City just has the potential to become a national leader in youth civic engagement," she told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann. And Meighan-Thiel hopes it won't be the last. municipalities where people under 18 can vote in city and school board elections.
If she succeeds, Culver City will become one of only a handful of U.S. The high school student is a major proponent of Measure VY - also known as Vote 16 - a measure on Tuesday's ballot that would lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in her hometown of Culver City, Calif. As It Happens 6:08 This California teenager is fighting to lower her city's voting age to 16Īda Meighan-Thiel, 17, spends her free time knocking on doors and advocating for a ballot initiative that she isn't allowed to vote on.
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