A youth group will hold a town hall meeting later this month to look at the issue of voting and the right to vote in Bermuda.

Generation Next will draft a Bill proposing automatic voter registration when men and women turn 18 and then present their proposals to the Bermuda Government and the Progressive Labour Party.

The group, which supports the proposed legislation providing absentee voting for students abroad in school, has also called for the implementation of the International Baccalaureate and A-level programmes into the public education system.

“It has become overwhelmingly important that young people recognise both the importance of their vote and the opportunity to secure their future by voting,” Eron Hill, the group’s founder and chairman, said.

“Notwithstanding voting being one of the centrepiece topics, we also recognise the political turmoil in Bermuda and the lack of contribution given by young people.

“It is vitally important that we not only feel a part of the process in shaping Bermuda but that we contribute to the process.”

The youth town hall meeting will be held on June 22 in the Dr E.F. Gordon Hall at the Bermuda Industrial Union building at 5.45pm.

All Government ministers and senators from both political parties have been invited to the event where the guest speaker will be former MP John Barritt along with Aminah Simmons, of CedarBridge Academy, and Destinee Taylor of Bermuda College.