Montpelier — Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos said that in the General Election of 2010, Vermont voters approved a Constitutional Amendment to allow 17 year olds, who will turn 18 on or before the day of the November election, to participate in the presidential primary and the August primary for the year that the voter will be 18 by the general election.
Three teenagers, Ellie Beckett, Courtney Mattison and Katie Levasseur, proposed the change.
Any person who turns 18 on or before Nov. 6, can register to vote, cast a Presidential Primary ballot on March 6, but not a town meeting ballot, and cast a ballot at the August primary.
However, 17 year olds cannot take the voter’s oath until they turn 18.
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