(1972)

PATRICK J. LUCEY, Governor of Wisconsin

You advise that Assembly Bill 131, which provides for lowering the minimum voting age in Wisconsin for state and local elections from 21 to 18 years of age, effective upon approval by the people at the November, 1972, general election, has passed both houses of the legislature and presently awaits your signature. The apparent purpose of this bill was to expand the Wisconsin electorate so that these young citizens, newly enfranchised for national election purposes by the Federal Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, could also vote in state and local…