Allows seventeen-year-olds to vote in New York primary elections if they will be eighteen by the general election.
New York S00877 amends the election law to allow U.S. citizens who are seventeen years old to vote in primary elections, including presidential primaries, if they will turn eighteen by the date of the corresponding general election. This change aims to increase youth participation in the democratic process.
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