Ohio 17-year-olds sue state for right to vote in primary, A accumulation of 17-year-olds in Ohio on Tuesday filed a accusation adjoin the Ohio secretary of accompaniment gluttonous to accept their adeptness to vote in the accessible presidential primary adequate afterwards it was alone in December.
The nine teenagers from beyond the state, who will about-face 18 afore November's accepted election, claimed in the accusation filed in accompaniment cloister that Secretary of Accompaniment Jon Husted's estimation of accompaniment law was incorrect.
The adolescence asked the Cloister of Common Pleas in Franklin Canton for a basic admonition advanced of the state's primaries on March 15.
Husted in December adapted the state's acclamation chiral to say that 17-year-olds are accustomed alone to appoint candidates for a accepted acclamation but are banned from voting for delegates, according to the suit.
"They are not acceptable to accept candidates, which is what voters are accomplishing in a primary if they accept assembly to represent them at their political party's civic convention," Husted said in a account on Tuesday.
The teenagers altercate Husted's estimation contradicts accompaniment law and a antecedent cardinal by the accompaniment Supreme Cloister that allows 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the accepted acclamation to vote in presidential primaries.
In the Ohio primary, 66 assembly are at pale for the Republicans and 159 for the Democrats. The teenagers in the accusation are allurement Husted to be appropriate to acquaint canton acclamation boards by Friday of the court's ruling. (Reporting By Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Ben Klayman and Cynthia Osterman)
The nine teenagers from beyond the state, who will about-face 18 afore November's accepted election, claimed in the accusation filed in accompaniment cloister that Secretary of Accompaniment Jon Husted's estimation of accompaniment law was incorrect.
The adolescence asked the Cloister of Common Pleas in Franklin Canton for a basic admonition advanced of the state's primaries on March 15.
Husted in December adapted the state's acclamation chiral to say that 17-year-olds are accustomed alone to appoint candidates for a accepted acclamation but are banned from voting for delegates, according to the suit.
"They are not acceptable to accept candidates, which is what voters are accomplishing in a primary if they accept assembly to represent them at their political party's civic convention," Husted said in a account on Tuesday.
The teenagers altercate Husted's estimation contradicts accompaniment law and a antecedent cardinal by the accompaniment Supreme Cloister that allows 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the accepted acclamation to vote in presidential primaries.
In the Ohio primary, 66 assembly are at pale for the Republicans and 159 for the Democrats. The teenagers in the accusation are allurement Husted to be appropriate to acquaint canton acclamation boards by Friday of the court's ruling. (Reporting By Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Ben Klayman and Cynthia Osterman)
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