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14 or Fight!

Brian Doherty | 3.9.2004 1:39 AM


An outgoing California state legislator wants to give 16- and 17-year-olds half a vote, and 14- and 15-year-olds a quarter vote. State Sen. John Vasconcellos patronizingly calls his (doubtless doomed) plan "training wheels for citizenship."

Paging Max Frost! Your time has come!

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).