Unlike 2008, 17 year olds in Ohio won't be able to vote in the Democratic Primary
Doesn't this make you damn proud to be a Democrat. 
In Ohio, as in 21 other states and the District of Columbia, if you will turn 18 years old by the time of the general election, you are permitted to participate in your state’s caucus or primary.
Yet the Buckeye State reversed course and 17-year-olds will no longer be able to vote in the state’s presidential primary on March 15.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s directive, in the 2015 election manual, states that these young voters cannot vote because the presidential primary election being held on March 15 will elect delegates, who then go to the conventions of their parties to vote on a nominee. The difference, the Republican Secretary of State says, is between “electing” and “nominating.”
Seventeen-year-olds may nominate a candidate for office, but not elect an official. So it rests on whether a vote in the primary is categorized as an election or a nomination.
In 2008, Husted’s predecessor Jennifer Brunner confirmed that 17-year-olds could just nominate candidates, but did not say how presidential primaries were categorized. Still, the young voters were able to participate in the state’s 2008 primary, which became a battleground between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/05/3757007/no-17-year-old-voting-ohio/
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