Proposition 18: Youth Voting

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We're exploring the 12 statewide ballot propositions in our Prop Fest series. This episode tackles Prop 18, which would allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary and special elections, as long as they will be 18 by the general election and are otherwise eligible to vote. Additional Reading: Episode transcript: https://www.kqed.org/news/11841211 Prop Fest Homepage: https://www.kqed.org/propfest KQED Voter Guide: http://kqed.org/voterguide Reported by Guy Marzorati. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Michelle Wiley.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hey, everyone, it's Olivia Alan Price, coming to you from Bay Curious Prop Fest, our series on the 12
0:09.7	statewide propositions on the California ballot. K-QED's guy, Marzorati is back again,
0:17.0	this time to help us with Proposition 18,
0:20.0	which would allow some 17-year- olds to vote in some elections.
0:25.0	On your ballot it reads a little something like this.
0:28.0	Prop 18 amends the California Constitution to permit 17 year olds to vote in primary and special elections if they
0:34.3	will turn 18 by the next general election and be otherwise eligible to vote.
0:38.0	We'll get into the ins and outs of this one on today's show. Stick around. Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by
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1:05.0	Politics reporter Guy Marzorati has been covering Prop 18 for KQED.
1:10.0	Hey Guy.
1:11.0	Hey. Hey.
1:12.0	So walk us through what we're voting on here.
1:14.1	So the very basics is that Proposition 18 would allow 17 year olds to vote in primary and special
1:20.3	elections if they turn 18 by the general election.
1:24.6	So to clarify, this would not have helped, for example, me who was 17 during the 2004 general election
1:32.2	and was pretty disgruntled that I wasn't able to vote, right?
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