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For those who haven’t looked at that Amendment recently, its words provide, quite straightforwardly, that, for citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen, the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age” (emphasis added).Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas grant absentee-voting eligibility specifically for all voters sixty-five or older, while… [read post]

” The third category of the statute thus prefers people who are 65 or older, giving them an entitlement to early voting by mail that younger persons do not enjoy unless they satisfy additional criteria.Plaintiffs challenged this law as violative of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, which provides—also quite straightforwardly—that “[t]he right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied… [read post]