Peter Levine: Increase voter turnout by lowering voting age
Channel: NOWCastSA
Date: 2015-10-09

Cities like San Antonio should consider lowering the voting age to 16 or 17 to increase voter turnout, scholar and civic engagement expert Peter Levine said in an interview with NOWCastSA at the 2015 Civic Engagement Summit at University of Texas at San Antonio.

Levine is associate dean for research at Tufts University’s  Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and author of books including, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America.