If implemented, the measure would make Newark the largest community in the United States to expand voting rights to younger residents since 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 nationwide.
Last year, only 3.1 percent of Newark's 195,000 registered voters cast ballots for the nonpartisan election for the city's nine-member school board. Each of the three winners won with fewer than 3,500 votes.
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