Canada

Also, setting the age to 16 pretty much means the average person won't vote until 18 based on election timing. If government is elected when you're 17, you might not vote until you are 21.

Is this really your experience with +16 years old? If so, you should get your province to invest more in education.

That's the problem, though. Young males voters are swaying heavily to right-wing parties, and it's thought that this is because of the online influence of bad actors.

Of course, any age can be manipulated, but far fewer are being swayed by these “influencers” as age increases.

And a lack of education ties in with voting Conservative, so there's no incentive for the Cons to change this. They benefit from young, naive, undereducated voters.

They(16yo) can drive, they can enlist.

I'm against that, too. Young drivers are notoriously bad at driving, and have poor judgment on the road.

In most provinces, they are choosing their career, trade, university, and with fresh knowledge of history and geopolitics they get from schools.

Yes, of course. It's a transition age.

Many countries already allowed 16 years old people to vote, for more than 20 years, and they did not become a misogynist hell-hole.

Other countries may not (at least, not now) have a problem with social media influencing their young voters. So, it may "work" for them, but not for North Americans.

I'm not trying to throw this age group under the bus. It's THEIR future that we vote for, and they really should be playing a role in shaping that future.

But I'd want them to be making an informed vote, without the voice of right-wing extremists in their heads. At this present time, I don't think that could happen, because these influencers run unchecked, and it DOES impact how our youth think and act.