NYC: Push to lower voter age to 16

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) agrees, and intends to launch an uphill crusade to lower the voting age in New York City.
"Sixteen-year-olds are mentally and emotionally capable of voting and are eager to do so, unlike many of their elders," Brewer said in a letter to her Council colleagues advising them that she will introduce a bill today to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 for municipal elections.
Brewer's bill is being spurred by a group called Future Voters of America, which has chapters in about a dozen high schools throughout the city.