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Re:3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pir... by im_dario on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:52PM (#3956302)
Based on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age#G and its references, the voting age in Germany for state elections is 16 years old.
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Re:3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pir... by mxfh on Thursday May 10, 2012 @06:34PM (#3956498)
Its 18. In North-Rhine Westphalia. http://www.wahlrecht.de/landtage/

End yes, just this was most likely just one commercial filter going rogue on drug related words in one school only, which blocked a completely legal and g-rated drug politics statement on the website of the pirate party. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

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Re:3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pir... by mahrz on Thursday May 10, 2012 @06:29PM (#3956477)
But only for municipal elections in some federal states. For state elections it is 18 in all federal states except for Bremen where the voting age is also 16.

However, there are students at school that are already 18, so I can see the problem here. Though it seems that it was caused by a misconfigured filter and clearly lack of intent.

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