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A new report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University finds that, in 2014, youth voter turnout fell to its lowest level on record. Just 19.9 percent of 18- to 29-year-old citizens cast ballots last fall, compared with an average of 26.6 percent for the same age range in other midterm elections over the previous 40 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-young-voters/2015/07/23/2781990e-316f-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html?hpid=z5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-young-voters/2015/07/23/2781990e-316f-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html?hpid=z5
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As a twenty-one year old, I personally don't vote because I don't really find myself informed on the candidates and what have ya. I don't know where to find the information, and I don't have the interest or energy to put into it. There's only one way you're truly going to know how someone is as a president, and that's by them becoming president and serving their term. I don't think there's enough information out there to begin with, and no matter what everyone's going to have their pros and cons. That's the biggest one with me, is how are the pros and cons going to weigh towards me, and I'm just not intelligent enough to figure that much out and, again, I just don't have interest in it. And perhaps MSG (Join to see) isn't far from the truth with most of my generation, but that certainly isn't all of it. CW4 Gary S. is much more accurate, I'd say.
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I agree with CW4 Gary S. that young folks just don't care. They just do not wish to get involved. Right now it's not whats important in their life. Oh the lesson we learn as we get older!
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