A Culver City high school senior is leading a local campaign to lower the voting age to 16 in the Southern California city. Mia Moroz, who heads the group advocating for the change, discussed the effort with NPR's Scott Simon in an interview broadcast on October 31, 2026.
The proposal would extend voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds in Culver City, a municipality in Los Angeles County. Moroz's organization is pressing for the change at the local level, where such decisions would affect municipal elections.
The interview with Moroz aired on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. The segment was scheduled for October 31, 2026, with audio available later that day, according to the network.
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The campaign in Culver City reflects a broader national conversation about youth civic engagement and the voting age, which stands at 18 for federal elections under the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. Local efforts to lower the threshold for municipal contests have emerged in several jurisdictions across the country.
Moroz's group is focused specifically on Culver City, where the proposal would apply to local elections. The interview with Simon marked one of the first national profiles of the student-led effort.
