Democrats know that younger Americans tend to skew more liberal so they have begun a nationwide effort to change laws allowing 16-year-olds (and younger in some cases) legally cast ballots.

And now, the effort has bore some fruit.

“The so-called ‘Vote 16’ campaign recently notched a victory in Vermont, where the Democrat-controlled state legislature last month overrode Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of a measure allowing 16-year-olds to vote in municipal elections and hold the highest elected offices,” Fox News reported on Friday.

In the town of Brattleboro, located in southern Vermont, a new statute allows 16- and 17-year-olds to exercise their right to vote. The young voters can participate not only in local elections but also have the opportunity to run for positions on the community’s select board.

Additionally, they are eligible to serve as representatives in the town’s annual town meeting, where important local matters are deliberated and determined, Fox News added.

Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, a Democrat in Brattleboro, expressed her belief that increasing youth participation in voting will contribute to their ongoing political engagement.

“Vermont is an aging state and we’re a state that really prides ourself on democracy and participation,” she said, according to the Associated Press. “I think the more we can do to bring youth into that process so that they learn the skills and practice the skills of participation and politics with sort of a lower case ‘p’ the stronger our communities will be and the more I think folks will feel tied to their communities.”

When he vetoed the legislation in May, Scott argued that lowering the voting age would make worse existing inconsistencies regarding the age of adulthood in the state.

“I believe it is important to encourage young Vermonters to have an interest in issues affecting their schools, their communities, their state, and their country,” he wrote in a letter to lawmakers. “However, I do not support lowering the voting age in Brattleboro, nor lowering the age to run for Town office and sign contracts on behalf of taxpayers.”

Meanwhile, in Missouri, “a statewide group is lobbying to lower the voting age for local and school board elections to 16,” Fox News reported.

DJ Yearwood, a teenager spearheading the initiative, has recently initiated the Vote16MO campaign, which seeks to lower the voting age to 16 in the Show Me State.

Collaborating with Missouri lawmakers, Vote16MO aims to introduce legislation in the upcoming session. Although Yearwood has not disclosed the names of the sponsors, he says the bill has both a Republican and Democrat as sponsors. The ultimate goal is to have a constitutional amendment on the ballot in next year’s elections to enable a measure lowering the voting age.

“We’re asking 16-year-olds to take this government class and to do this one small unit on local government, and then save it for two years and apply it to their lives,” Yearwood told St. Louis Public Radio recently. “We could be doing it right now, while it’s intimate and impactful to them the most.”

The legal age for most everything else (including voting at the moment) is 18. For buying liquor or firearms, the age is 21.