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The state legislature will have to approve the Cambridge petition, because voting eligibility rules such as the voting age in local elections fall under its powers. Both student activists and councillors said they were unsure how or when the legislature would respond. But no one said they foresaw a smooth...
Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90-’91 (D-Cambridge) and Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge) have both indicated their support for approving the petition at the state level.
Cambridge already has another petition on voting eligibility currently pending with the state legislature, which would allow immigrants to vote in school committee elections. Several councillors had previously expressed concern that a petition to lower the voting age would distract from the immigrant voting petition, but Monday night councillors said...
And in the meantime, the students said, they plan to begin lobbying the state Senate to approve the city’s petition for a 17 year voting age because they feel the Senate would be more receptive than the House, said Paul H. Heintz, a CRLS student and co...
The measure came into Monday night’s council meeting with the endorsement of the school committee, which voted 5-2 last Tuesday to support the petition.