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[24 Nov 2009 | One Comment | 256 views]
Youth elections in Denmark

On nov. 17 local elections for members of the 98 municipality boards were elected in Denmark. Alle citizens aged 18 and above was invited to vote for their favorite candidates in the municipalities and in the regional government.
This year a initiative involving 31 municipalities held a youth election for youths aged 16 to 18. They were invited to vote too using a web-platform. This special  election was only used to indicate the involment if this agegroup, the vote didn’t have any influence on the real elections.
The idea behind the test-election was …