A more important thing is that even before they have the right to vote, we need to enable them with, for example, participatory budgeting rights, deliberation rights and policymaking, proposing sandbox regulations and laws, and engaging in presidential hackathons, starting e-petitions, and so on, which are all empowering disenfranchised people, that is to say people who couldn’t vote because they were not yet at the voting age.

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