A Seventeen Year Old Will Be Voting For Obama
A seventeen year old is providing us a free American history lesson, raising your voice during election time and prompting 50,000 others her age a chance to participate in democracy.
Sarah Boltuck and her father, Richard, fought to restore the right for Maryland 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they turn 18 by the general election. (By Lois Raimondo — The Washington Post)
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.
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It’s beautiful to see democracy bloom in a way it never has before. And it’s blooming because of the young.
Steve Sims - March 11, 2008 at 9:34 am