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The UK will lower its voting age to 16. Could the U.S. follow suit?

People walk past a sign for a polling station during local council elections in Folkestone, England in May. The British government is announcing plans to lower the voting age to 16.

The British government aims to make all 16- and 17-year-olds eligible to vote starting in the next U.K. general election. Some voting age limits are changing in the U.S., but only at the local level.

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