I think this is a good gesture.
something I learned recently about voting rights -
In England, from around 1832 to 1901 (5 years before Queen Victoria took the throne at 18 years old, to when she died).
Some of the new laws passed were trying to help working men and women deal with the problems of industrialization (factory work) and urbanization (dirty and cramped apartments and neighborhoods).
The most significant new law was the First Reform Bill of 1832. Among a bunch of other things, the bill extended the vote beyond the “landholding gentry” to about half of middle-class men (about 1.5 million men). “Of course, it still denied the vote to all working-class men and all women” … people protested, and there was a Second Reform Bill in 1867, which "extended the vote to still more men”.
In 1918, Women over the age of 30 were finally given the right to vote.
(Women aged 21 to 30 had to wait until 1927.)
So, 1867 to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1918, then . . . . . . 1927, in England.
(source: 2004 Introduction to Hard Times (1854) by Karen Odden)