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  "path": "/2026/03/dont-just-give-16-year-olds-the-vote-give-them-something-to-vote-for/",
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  "textContent": "### Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right.\n\n* * *\n\nRhineland-Palatinate is one of only five German states where the local voting age remains 18. Some politicians, like SPD member Michael Ebling, pictured here at a 2023 demonstration, have advocated lowering it to 16, as is the case elsewhere in the German-speaking world. (Sebastian Gollnow /Getty Images)\n\nSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.",
  "title": "Give 16-Year-Olds Something to Vote for, Not Just the Vote",
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