University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Volume 4 1970 Restrictions on Student Voting: An Unconstitutional Anachronism? W. Perry Bullard University of Michigan Law School James A. Rice University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Education Law Commons, Election Law Commons, and the State and Local Government Law Commons Recommended Citation W. P. Bullard & James A. Rice, Restrictions on Student Voting: An Unconstitutional Anachronism?, 4 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 215 (1970). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol4/iss2/5 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. RESTRICTIONS ON STUDENT VOTING: AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ANACHRONISM? I. INTRODUCTION "One man, one vote" is a shorthand phrase for the principle that in a democracy each citizen has the right to participate equally in the electoral process. By its recent extension of the franchise1 to eleven and a half million new eighteen to twenty-one year old voters,2 Congress has paid tacit tribute to the political concern and awareness of a large segment of the nation's youth by 3 offering them the ballot box as a vehicle for political action. Although the Supreme Court recently restricted this grant of the franchise to congressional and national elections, 4 many public officials believe that the inconvenience and inevitable confusion of maintaining dual registration and voting procedures will move many states to enact eighteen year old vote laws in the interests of administrative uniformity.