congratulations to cynthia wang. i'm happy to be here today to discuss the charter amendment, to extend voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds for local elections. i'm proud to join my colleagues, supervisors fewer, walton, haney, safai, mar and preston in sponsoring this legislation. i would like to thank and recognize the san francisco youth commission. and youth advocates, who have been working so hard to make san francisco the first major u.s. city to allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal elections. thank you for your continued work and tireless support of this effort. it has been a long road to get to this point and it is so important, especially at this critical time in our city, in our country. it takes steps to strengthen our democracy and continue to build upon efforts to ensure that we have a government that works for everyone. we need to ensure that young people build a habit of voting as early as possible. and continue to participate in our democracy throughout their lives. voter turnout