Editing Suffrage (section)

===Age===
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{{Main|Voting age|Age of candidacy}}
All modern democracies require voters to meet age qualifications to vote.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} Worldwide voting ages are not consistent, differing between countries and even within countries, though the range usually varies between 16 and 21 years. The United Kingdom was the first major democratic nation to [[Representation of the People Act 1969|extend suffrage to those 18 and older in 1969]].<ref name="Bingham 2019">{{Cite web |last=Bingham |first=Adrian |date=25 June 2019 |title='The last milestone' on the journey to full adult suffrage? 50 years of debates about the voting age |url=https://www.historyandpolicy.org/index.php/policy-papers/papers/the-last-milestone-on-the-journey-to-full-adult-suffrage |access-date=31 December 2022 |website=History & Policy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Loughran |first1=Thomas |last2=Mycock |first2=Andrew |last3=Tonge |first3=Jonathan |date=3 November 2021 |title=Lowering the voting age: three lessons from the 1969 Representation of the People's Act |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/lessons-from-the-1969-representation-of-the-peoples-act/ |access-date=31 December 2022 |website=British Politics and Policy at LSE}}</ref> The movement to lower the voting age is one aspect of the [[Youth rights]] movement. [[Demeny voting]] has been proposed as a form of proxy voting by parents on behalf of their children who are below the age of suffrage.

[[Nomination rules]] generally include [[age of candidacy]] rules.