{"id":5302,"date":"2023-06-06T05:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2023-06-06T05:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:11:20","slug":"electoral-system-review-major-recommendations-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-cap-donations-and-create-4-year-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5302","title":{"rendered":"Electoral system review: Major recommendations to lower voting age to 16, cap donations, and create 4-year terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">An independent panel of experts is recommending a radical reshaping of the nation\u2019s political landscape, including lowering the voting age to 16, capping political donations and a referendum on extending the parliamentary term to four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The series of draft recommendations, suggesting sweeping changes to ensure the system is delivering for voters, would give the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/infoshare.stats.govt.nz\/ViewTable.aspx?pxID=0409ea4f-08a7-40dc-9684-2bcfaa3748a7\">more than 125,000 16 and 17-year-olds<\/a>\u00a0the right to vote, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elections.nz\/stats-and-research\/enrolment-statistics\/enrolment-by-general-electorate\">grow the electorate<\/a>\u00a0by more than 3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">People aged 16 can already drive, have a firearms licence, and leave school.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE -STUFF NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent panel of experts is recommending a radical reshaping of the nation\u2019s political landscape, including lowering the voting age to 16, capping political donations and a referendum on extending the parliamentary term to four years. The series of draft recommendations, suggesting sweeping changes to ensure the system is delivering for voters, would give the\u00a0more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}