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DESCRIPTION:Berkeley, Calif., March 1, 2004:  Dozens of teens will protest the voting 
 age during California's primary election Tuesday, in the largest 
 demonstration of its kind since 1971.     Protestors will picket outside a 
 polling station starting at 7 AM on March 2, while a smaller group will 
 walk into the polling station and demand a ballot, much like Susan B. 
 Anthony and her fellow suffragists famously did in Rochester, New York in 
 1872.  They are prepared to face arrest if it comes to it.  The protest 
 will occur in Berkeley at the senior center at 1901 Hearst Street on the 
 corner of Martin Luther King and Hearst.     The National Youth Rights 
 Association has pledged its full support to the protestors, led by 
 17-year-old NYRA-Berkeley chapter leader, Robert Reynolds. This sit-in, the 
 first of its kind in the United States, could spark a nationwide protest 
 movement over lowering the voting age.       California Senator Jackie 
 Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) sponsored ACA 23 in 1995, which would 
 have lowered the State's voting age to 14;  This debate is not new for 
 California or for the nation.     Alaska, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Texas, 
 and Maine have considered lowering their voting ages.  In addition, 
 campaigns are underway in Florida, Hawaii, North Dakota, New York and 
 Maryland to lower the voting age.     Constitutional law experts agree: the 
 26th Amendment, which gave 18-year-olds the right to vote nationwide, still 
 leaves open the possibility for states to lower it further.  NYRA is 
 considering a legal challenge to the voting age in California after the 
 sit-in is over.       Around the world voting rights are being bestowed 
 upon younger people; the German parliament has proposed to abolish the 
 voting age.   While in the United Kingdom, the Labour government is hearing 
 debate on legislation to lower the voting age to 16.     About NYRA  The 
 National Youth Rights Association is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and 
 with some 3,600 members, is the largest youth-rights organization in the 
 United States.  Its mission is to promote awareness of the legal and civil 
 rights of young people in the United States, and has done so through since 
 its founding in 1998.    ###  \n 
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Teens Sit-In, Protest to Lower Voting Age
LOCATION: The protest will occur in Berkeley at the senior center at 1901 Hearst 
 Street on the corner of Martin Luther King and Hearst.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/01/32343.php
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