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Getting young people to the polls requires a more holistic approach.

Elections coordinator Ruby Belle Booth tells Gustaf Kilander there’s an ‘opportunity between now and 2024 to make sure that every single young person has the information and resources they need to get registered to vote and to cast their ballot’

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It's happening as both political parties realize that young voters can make a difference in close elections.

Young people, aged 18 to 29, had one of the highest voter turnouts in a midterm election in recent history, according to our early analysis..

The November 2022 midterms have come and gone, but there are still some potential lasting implications that could influence the next election season.

Their votes were influential or outright decisive in several close races won by Democrats, such as Nevada’s senate election. Their turnout could signal a possible shift — or exception — in voting trends.

Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms. signaling a possible shift in voting trends.

About 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the midterms, marking the second-highest voter turnout in midterms in 30 years.

Young voters in Georgia have a reputation to maintain this election season, but 20-year-old Alex Ames is worried.  In both 2018 and 2020, uncharacteristically high voter turnout among young people — a bloc whose election-day apathy has long been well documented — delivered unmistakable political power. Just two years ago, young voters, and Black youth […]