When voting age was lowered to 18
Two of Secretary Reed’s passions – history and voting – literally came together in his office Monday as he reminisced with other key players in Washington’s role to allow 18-year-olds to vote. Reed joined former Gov. Mike Lowry, Ian McGowan, Mark Brown and Wendy Bowen in a roundtable discussion in the Secretary’s office to relive memories of their successful effort to persuade the state Legislature in 1971 to ratify the U.S. Constitution’s 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from…