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In all but three states, Georgia, Kentucky and Alaska, persons in that»age group have not been eligible up to this time. Now, unless they are unable to satisfy the minimum residency requirement, 30 days, they may register. They may not be barred because of inability to pass a literacy test.
Extending voting privileges to the additional 330 in Rappahannock County was equivalent to giving the franchise to an extra 6.3 percent of the local population.
Elsewhere throughout the country, with the addition of some 11.5 million young people to the rolls, another 5.6 percent of the population gets voting rights.
The totals are exclusive of others who will not qulaify by virtue of the fact that residency requirements are reduced to 30 days and by the fact that literacy tests are to be discontinued.
How much of an impact on election results, locally . nd in other areas, this influx of new voters will exert, is a matter being given considerable thought in political circles. The consensus is that there will be no great difference.
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