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SALEM, Ore. — Sixteen-year-olds could vote in Oregon, under a plan unveiled in the Legislature.

The Statesman Journal reports that several state lawmakers are introducing a bill that would ask voters to amend the Oregon Constitution to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 years old.


The bill is backed by The Bus Project, a nonprofit organization that encourages volunteer civic activism in Oregon.

Since 2003, thirteen other states, including Washington, have introduced bills to lower the voting age, some just for school-board elections and some for all state elections.

None have passed.