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Elections in november, that literally is republicans' best hope of holding on to control of congress, and it's democrats' worst fear. but in 1971, when they first dropped the voting age from 21 to 18, so 18, 19, 20-year-olds could all vote, back then when they made the change, there was bit of a national freak-out, specifically over the prospect of college students voting as a bloc in the collegeto towns whe they live and went to school. from middlebury, maryland, lexington, kentucky, michigan, texas, all over the country, in college towns there were lawsuits all of the sudden to try to stop s...

Uproar not just in that state, but around the country for it. tonight the lawyers committee for civil rights has announce they'd filed a lawsuit against brian kemp over those registrations that he and his office are blocking ahead of his own gubernatorial election. lawyers committee for civil rights seems very confident in their prospects of beating brian kemp in this lawsuit. they say they have beaten him in the past on this same issue, and they expect to do so again. that confidence is interesting and it may be true that they're going to beat him here, but, you know, tick-tock. the election ...

Were also a very scary prospect to people who didn't like the way they thought young people would vote. you know, we're almost 50 years on from that change in american law, and the dynamic is basically still exactly the same. this year in 2018, republicans' best chance for holding onto congress is if young people don't get out and vote. the polling data from this year that shows most young people don't intend to vote in the elections in november, that literally is republicans' best hope of holdling onto control of congress. and it's democrats' worst fear. but back in 1971 when they first dropp...

And in 1972, the year after the voting age changed from 21 to 18, lots and lots of students at prairie view decided they wanted to register and vote for the 1972 election. it was a super hot election, right? nixon is running for reelection, running against a liberal anti-war candidate, george mcgovern. prairie view students 18, 19, 20-year-olds, they've newly got the right to vote. they decide like students all around the country that they wanted to register and vote, and they decided that in large numbers. county officials in waller county, texas, though, decide they'd were not going to allow...

Tick-tock, the election is 26 days away. but here's another jaw-dropping story about the election. this one also just breaking over the last 24 hours, and this one ends with a bizarre arrest. we're going to hear in a moment from the person arrested at the end of this story. here's where the story starts. 1971, voting age in this country changes from 21 to 18. and that meant, for one thing, that americans who were getting sent off to go fight in vietnam, they'd now be old enough to vote for or against the politicians who were sending them to fight, which seems just like a baseline morally c...