Pa. deadline looms for voter registration

<p>A judge ruled 17-year-olds in Ohio can indeed vote in Tuesday&#39;s presidential primary. It sounds weird, but bear with us.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3503" target="_blank">Ohio law allows anyone who will turn 18 between primary</a>&nbsp;voting and the general election in November to vote in primaries. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted interpreted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ohio-judge-allows-17-year-olds-to-vote-in-primary/2016/03/11/72009080-e7df-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html" target="_blank">that law to somehow exclude presidential primaries</a>, a&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/05/3757007/no-17-year-old-voting-ohio/" target="_blank">departure from the 2008&nbsp;</a>primary.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Husted concluded the not-quite-18-year-olds can nominate candidates but can&#39;t elect delegates to political party conventions, which is what happens during the primary season.&nbsp;</p><p>But a judge disagreed Friday, siding with the plaintiffs,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/08/0308-17-yr-olds-sue.html" target="_blank">a group of 17-year-olds</a>&nbsp;that filed a lawsuit in Ohio. A similar federal lawsuit by presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://berniesanders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bernie2016vHusted.pdf" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders</a>&nbsp;is still outstanding.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;If you engage young people in the political process, if they vote when they&#39;re young, there is a strong likelihood they will continue to vote,&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alsurEqtrHU" target="_blank">Sanders told the media during the announcement of the lawsuit</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>Sanders definitely has a vested interest in getting more young people to the polls Tuesday. He&#39;s been clobbering Hillary Clinton with the youth vote since February. In Michigan, a state pretty similar to Ohio,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/mi/Dem" target="_blank">Sanders won 18- to 24-year-olds with 85 percent of the vote</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ohio-judge-allows-17-year-olds-to-vote-in-primary/2016/03/11/72009080-e7df-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html" target="_blank">According to The Washington Post</a>, Sanders said he was &quot;delighted&quot; with the Ohio judge&#39;s ruling. The Secretary of State&#39;s Office&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/mediaCenter/2016/2016-03-11-a.aspx" target="_blank">released a statement Friday that said</a>, &quot;We will not proceed with an appeal on this decision and I will direct all county boards of elections later this evening to comply with the court order.&quot;&nbsp;</p><p><i>This video includes images from Getty Images and&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ohiososhusted/timeline" target="_blank"><i>Facebook / Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted</i></a><i>.&nbsp;</i></p>