About 950 kids drew permits but if they disqualify them, a lot more older hunters will lose their permits, too. Many of the kids are in group hunts. If any of the group is ineligible, the entire group is disqualified. That's nothing new. It's been than way for many years.
The legal standard should be based on what reasonable people did when reading the instructions... They should have recognized the fact the law changes would be confusing and made special arrangements to revamp the process and install large warnings.
It sounds like a huge chunk of people failed to get it right... so the State got it wrong, clearly. With the time constraints a do-over is probably not likely.
They have painted themselves into a corner and nothing they do will be right... Taking the tags away from the underage winners is probably the worst answer.
