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North Dakota Passes Age Limit Restrictions For Those Seeking Political Offi

Voters in North Dakota have approved a measure requiring their Congressional candidates to abide by new age restrictions becoming the first state in America to take such action.

On Tuesday, North Dakota voters approved the Congressional Age Limits Initiative with an overwhelming 60.88% of voters approving an age limit restriction for anyone running for the U.S. House of Representatives and for the U.S. Senate.

The voters approved a “common sense” approach whereby any candidate who turns 81-years-old by December 31st before the end of the term shall not be eligible to run for office.

The measure stated that “no person may be elected or appointed to serve a term or a portion of a term representing North Dakota in the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives if that person could be 81 years old by December 31 of the year immediately preceding the end of the term, and any such person is prohibited from appearing on the ballot.”

NBC News reported, “It is believed to be the first-in-the-nation measure imposing age limits on candidates running for federal office, but it’s also expected to be challenged in court.”

Republican Jared Hendrix, chairman of the Retire Congress North Dakota initiative, secured the signatures needed to have the measure added to the ballot.  “Most people think it’s common sense that politicians should retire at some point,” he told the New York Times. “I think it’s very possible that if we pull this off here, other states will follow.”

“We do think that there is a lot of wisdom that comes with age. But, of course, there’s a limit, to where we all face a decline of some kind at some point. And so, we wanted to try to find the right balance. We thought 80 was the balance,” he said.

The initiative passed by North Dakota echoes America’s sentiment for having younger representatives in office especially after what many speculate to be the rapid cognitive decline of President Biden in his late 70’s and now 81-years-old.

CNN reported examples of other such rapid declines like, “the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died in office at 90 last September, had rejected repeated calls from her Democratic colleagues to step down, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 82, announced in February that he will step down as GOP leader after suffering a string of high-profile health incidents in the past year.”


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