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Re: US age restrictions
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:35:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ed Jones writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:

21 - Drinking age (21 also used to be voting age, but that changed in the 60's
    or so... I'm not sure exactly when)

1972 - I voted for the first time, in a Presidential Election, at age 18.

Yup, the Viet Nam War changed that: old enough to die, old enough to vote.
I was in that first batch of under 21 voters like you.  :-)

Bruce



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(...) 1972 - I voted for the first time, in a Presidential Election, at age 18. (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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