60-Second Civics: Episode 3999, Voting Age Lowered to Eighteen
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During the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans were drafted to fight in souteast Asia, but many of these same troops had no right to vote because they were younger than 21. This all changed with the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
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