14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor

Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by TaylorAlexander on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:01PM (#17753945)

Hah. The ‘legal quirk’ is that there is no age limit to run for this office.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by florabuzzword on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:07PM (#17753975)

Technically, it looks like the minimum age requirement is 4.

From his website, which is linked to in another comment:

Is This Legal?

Yes! According to the Vermont Constitution and the Vermont Attorney General, you only have to have lived in Vermont for 4 years or more on the day before the election. Ethan has lived here for 14 years.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by zaarn on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:25AM (#17756282)

Depending on when you start to count as "lived in", it could be between 3 years and 3 months to 4 years.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by CobrastanJorji on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:10PM (#17753981)

Well, maybe. Conservatives in Vermont might argue that the minimum age is 3 years and 3 months.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by ars on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:34PM (#17754094)

That's counting from LMP, which is incorrect the way you are using it.

It would 3 years and 3.25 months if you want to actually be accurate.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by arcticbull on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:55AM (#17755866)

Sorry for your downvotes, I thought that was very on the nose. Well played.

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Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor by Markoff on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:26AM (#17755766)

this would have pretty big chance in China actually and they are not Christians

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