Culver City Teen Voting Measure Likely to Fall Short
By Connor Sheets Even if initiative fails, proponents call effort a success by engaging youths in democracy. A youth-driven push for a ballot measu...
By Connor Sheets Even if initiative fails, proponents call effort a success by engaging youths in democracy. A youth-driven push for a ballot measure to lower the voting age will probably fall short in Culver City after months of advocacy on both sides. The ballot initiative, known as Measure VY, would allow Culver City residents as young as 16 to vote in city and school board elections. No other municipality in the country put such a proposition before voters this election cycle. As of Thursday evening, the latest numbers from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk show 4,918 votes against the measure compared with 4,264 votes for it, a difference of about 54% to 46%.