April 23, 2008 - 11:38am
Updated: House sends voting age bill to Supreme Court
By Brian LawsonThe New Hampshire House of Representatives have voted to send to the New Hampshire Supreme Court a bill allowing seventeen-year olds to vote in primaries.
The House voted 196-104 to ask the Court whether there are any constitutional barriers in allowing seventeen-year olds, who will turn eighteen before the general election, to vote in state primaries.
Responding to the vote, New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen called the bill "this year's pumpkin bill."
"This is reminiscent of the infamous pumpkin bill brought to the legislature at the behest of schoolchildren, in this case, the daughter of a Democrat senator," Cullen said in a statement. "Now that the Democrats have finished wasting time on this voting bill and dispatched the bill to the Supreme Court, maybe they can concentrate instead on a different 17; the 17.5 percent spending increase that has resulted in the Lynch budget deficit. This is just one more example of the Democrats’ misplaced legislative priorities, focusing on trivial matters instead of substantive issues."
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Ummmm, Fergus uses apples and oranges to talk about pumpkins.
Giving limited voting rights to 17 year olds who are old enough at that age to join our military services so they can be sent to Iraq is a good thing, and Republicans should learn that. It's something called "democracy."
The agreement to send this bill to the State Supreme Court for its opinion is a result of Democrats using good judgment -- that we want to be sure legislation we are passing is constitutional. If the Republicans used such care in past years with legislation they proposed and passed, we wouldn't have some of the current problems we have on education funding.
This is a win-win for both
This is a win-win for both parties but Fergus would rather take shots at the Democrats. One would think that Fergus would want to engage young Republicans in the electoral process.
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