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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:38 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:37
Sen. Jamie Raskin, a Montgomery County Democrat and a constitutional law professor, said he asked the attorney general’s office to review the ruling.
In a reply to Raskin yesterday, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said, “It is my view that the conflict between the Maryland constitutional provision and the First Amendment rights now asserted by the parties requires that the [state Board of Elections] permit 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the next general election to vote in the parties’ primary election.”
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