It has already been greatly stated that Barack Obama is a big hit among the youth vote. "He wins in the 18-24 group!" "He wins in the 18-21 group." The issue is that in the Maryland Primary Tuesday, it will be the 17-24 or 17-21 due to a very brave young woman that wasn't going to get her chance to vote in the primary taken away from her.
Sarah Boltuck's senior year at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda was transformed by a rejection letter -- not from a college, but from the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
It said she could not vote in the February primary because she was not yet 18. Boltuck thought differently. She fought it all the way to the state elections board and the attorney general's office, and she won.
Last month, Boltuck, along with her father and a sympathetic state senator, persuaded Maryland's top legal minds to restore the right of suffrage to at least 50,000 teens who will turn 18 between the Feb. 12 primary and the Nov. 4 election.
I hope those working the Maryland race are getting this out to the impact 17-year-olds, especially that we are talking about a group of up to 50,000 extra voters!!
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