SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. - The town of Southborough could soon be allowing 17-year-olds to fill out a ballot of their own.

Over the weekend, a town meeting approved granting voting rights to qualified 17-year-olds to vote in town elections. James Nichols-Worley, 18, was behind the petition to get the vote to a town meeting. He's a senior in high school and said 17-year-olds can do so much, so they should be able to vote too.

"When I was 17, I knocked on doors for political candidates, under federal guidelines I could make political donations, I even testified before the state legislature for a bill I supported at 17, but I couldn't vote in my own town's elections," Nichols-Worley said.

"We don't really restrict voting in our democratic society, we don't restrict it based off anything else except for that we trust people to vote. That's the thing we need in society. I trust young people, I think they will make great voters, and if anyone is excited enough to sit through 12 hours of town meeting, I think they are ready to vote."

The home rule petition now needs approval from the legislature and Gov. Maura Healey. Nichols-Worley said as far as he knows, no town or city in Massachusetts has passed this on their own yet, making Southborough one of the first.