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Joe Hernandez

A North Dakota ballot question could be a legal test case for political age limits

Sunlight illuminates the North Dakota House of Representatives in Bismarck, N.D. A ballot question will ask North Dakota voters whether the state should bar anyone from running for Congress if they'd turn 81 during their term. (Jack Dura/AP)

A ballot question before North Dakota voters this summer will ask whether the state should bar anyone from running for the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate if they'd turn 81 before the last three days of their term.

It's the latest effort to set age limits for politicians, something that's seen growing support across the country but likely faces an uphill legal battle.

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