Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 09, 2015
By: Abraham Gerber  /  Staff reporter

The voting age for Taipei referendums should be lowered to 18, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday.

At a meeting of the city government’s Civil Participation Committee, Ko backed a proposal to ask the Taipei City Council to revise the Referendum Autonomous Articles under consideration, lowering the voting age by two years to 18.

Ko backs voting at 18 because that is the age at which people must shoulder legal responsibility for crimes, he said, expressing incredulity that proposals to lower the voting age had “disappeared” in the fight over potential constitutional amendments.     [FULL  STORY]