{"id":262534,"date":"2025-07-17T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-would-16-and-17-year-olds-vote-if-they-could\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:04:38","slug":"how-would-16-and-17-year-olds-vote-if-they-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-would-16-and-17-year-olds-vote-if-they-could\/","title":{"rendered":"How would 16 and 17 year olds vote if they could?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/JejX91xte0Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How would 16 and 17 year olds vote if they could?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JejX91xte0Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The voting age is set to be lowered before the next election &#8211; but how would 16 and 17 year olds actually vote?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voting age is set to be lowered before the next election &#8211; but how would 16 and 17 year olds actually vote? \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/ Follow ITV News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":262535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[129671,140486,134199],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-262534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-before","tag-lowered","tag-voting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How would 16 and 17 year olds vote if they could? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How would 16 and 17 year olds vote if they could? for free, here on News ISC. 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