(Updated) Iowa City to Vote on 21 Ordinance

Today people in Iowa City will be voting on whether to allow 19 and 20 year olds to enter bars (but not to drink) or to pass an ordinance stating that after 10:00 pm only people 21 or older will be able to enter bars.

T.M. Lindsay has an interesting look at this over at Iowa Independent.

While John Deeth sums it up in a great rant about why 18 year olds should be able to drink.
When you're 18, you're an adult.

End of story. Vote no.

**Update on 11/6 at 8:45 pm**
It's looking like the ordinance passed by just 51% to 49% or just over 200 votes. This means bars in Iowa City will only be open to those 21 and over. Someone better be making plans to open up a mini golf course near campus.

**Update on 11/7 at 8:10 am**
I guess the ordinance was defeated 57% to 43%. I was puzzled at first at how this passed with so many students voting early at satellite voting around campus.

From the Popular Progressive...

In an unusual turn of events story, the 21-only bar referendum failed as absentee ballots which had not been counted when all the polls had closed, were added up. The tipping point came after the last city precinct to report, City High, toppled the race to the "Yes" side by about 200 votes, after the "No" vote led all evening. At 9:50, the auditors office reported the margin had shifted dramatically back to the "no" side by a count of 8,895 to 6,606.