Westsyde students speak out for drop in voting age
KAMLOOPS — A group of students taking the Social Studies 11 class at Westsyde Secondary School have launched an appeal to the provincial government to lower the voting age in BC.
The students say there is good reason and global precedent to drop the voting age from 18 to 16.
Reece Newman and Savannah Rudkin, both 16, spoke to CFJC News about the idea.
“It started off just as a school project (exploring) why it would be a good idea, and just escalated from there,” said Newman. “We wrote a bill, wrote about why it should be lowered. It just flowered from there.”