10% increase in youth voting in 2018 Mid Term Elections

CIRCLE, The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, released an estimate of youth turnout, and all signs show a ten percent increase in voting rates among this cohort. Ten percent! Up from 21 percent in the 2014 midterms, Tuesday’s 31 percent youth turnout was the highest in at least a quarter century.

 

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Christina Erickson, PhD, Director for Service & Sustainability Learning
Center for Service & Sustainability, Champlain College

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