{"id":315797,"date":"2026-02-06T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/are-16-year-olds-ready-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:00:17","slug":"are-16-year-olds-ready-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/are-16-year-olds-ready-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Are 16 year olds ready to vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZYcZObuJ0v8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Are 16 year olds ready to vote?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYcZObuJ0v8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lewis Denison spoke to Democracy Minister Samantha Dixon and students in Hackney about the voting age being lowered to 16 in time for the next general election. <\/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>Reporter Lewis Denison spoke to Democracy Minister Samantha Dixon and students in Hackney about the voting age being lowered to 16 in time for the next general election. \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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[147370,131386,129450],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-315797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-denison","tag-lewis","tag-reporter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are 16 year olds ready to vote? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Are 16 year olds ready to vote? for free, here on News ISC. 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