Newsroom should know better

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/future-for-local-government-draft-report

If you read the full story you will see that the data on the left is from a self-selecting online survey targeting young people.

To do a graphic where you contrast a non-representative self-selecting poll with a scientific one is terrible. And to use it to claim young people do support lowering the voting age is worse, as the scientific poll (done by Curia) found only 23% of under 40s support it.

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