NH Legislation would allow 17-year-olds to vote in 2012 primary

A new piece of legislation filed in the New Hampshire Legislature would allow 17-year-old the right to participate in the New Hampshire presidential primary as long as they were 18-years-old by the general election.

Portsmouth state Representative Jim Splaine, a Democrat, is the primary author of the bill. He is also the author of a legislation in the 1970s that required the state to hold the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.