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What was the primary purpose for the 26th amendment?

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Its purpose was to prohibit anyone under 18 years old from voting

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The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

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