A group of Westborough High School students are pushing to lower the town's voting age. The measure aimed at allowing 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds the ability to vote in local elections and meetings goes before a town meeting Saturday, March 21st.

Westborough junior Gerhard Doering, "Students would be able to stand up and speak about the budget, about different capital expenditures throughout the town, as well as anything else that is being put on a warrant article in the town, as well as vote on that."

Westborough senior Ava Wallace says one of the main goals of the article is engagement, "One of our goals is to increase civic engagement because of people not knowing about this enough or not being civically engaged so as I talk to my peers they are they definitely portray a lot of interest and they would like to get more involved so we created a club at our high school called "Westborough Vote 16" where students can come in to one of our classrooms hosted by our history teachers and we just we can educate people about what's going on in the town."

Junior Chloe Flynn said this would give 16 and 17 year olds the opportunity to take part in what affect them directly, "Since we have this opportunity and we're able to we can directly influence our lives and the financial aspects of them, the social aspects, just our town around us. And I think that having this power and having this ability to really know how to engage the right way is really, really important in helping the rest of our lives."

Senior Olivia Stark added, "There are a lot of ways that 16 and 17 year olds can be involved in town government and I think that this is a really good way for them to have a say and for them to really be more informed and help them as they get older. Like this whole movement is about long-term civic engagement and civic habits."