Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

The age of majority is eighteen or younger.

Obligations

Right and Opportunity to Vote

Election Parts

Voting Operations

Issues

The Right to Vote, and Voting Operations

Criteria

The right to vote was guaranteed by law and was subject only to reasonable and objective restrictions

Quotes

For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.