Talk about a youth mayor.
Youths 16 years old and up could vote for mayors of San Francisco and other municipal officers, if a push to lower the voting age is successful.
Voting for presidential elections is set in stone by federal law: you must be 18 to vote.
However, cities can set other rules for their elections. Only one city in the country allows 16 year olds to vote, according to the San Francisco Examiner, and there are youth activists in the city who want to see SF as No. 2.
Joshua Cardenas, a senior at Riordan High in the city, is 18 now but was 17 during the Nov. 5 election. He's one of the members of the city's Youth Commission, which voted 14 to 1 to support a resolution asking Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors to explore lowering the voting age.
Two supervisors, Eric Mar and John Avalos, jumped on as supporters of such a measure.
But for 16 year olds to go to the polls, voters of all ages will have to approve a charter amendment, the newspaper reported.
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There's no word yet as to when such an issue could go before voters of age.
