<P> Brazil lowered the voting age from 18 to 16 in the 1988 constitution . The presidential election of 1989 was the first with the lower voting age . People between the ages 18 and 70 are required to vote . </P> <P> On 20 November 2013, Malta lowered the voting age from 18 to 16 for local elections starting from 2015 . The proposal had wide support from both the government and opposition, social scientists and youth organizations . </P> <P> The Representation of the People Act 1969 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, with effect from 1970 and remained in force until the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013 which allowed 16 year olds to vote for the first time, but only in Scotland and only in that particular referendum . The Scottish Parliament reduced the voting age to 16 for its own and Scottish local elections in 2015 . </P> <P> Men in military service who turned 19 during the first world war were entitled to vote in 1918 irrespective of their age as part of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which also allowed some women over the age of 30 to vote . The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 brought the voting age for women down to 21 . </P>

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