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Seventeen percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday’s election were by voters ages 18-29. Seventeen percent. This was not the expected banner year for youth voter turnout. Across the nation right now, politically active young people, whether Democrat or Republican, are mourning together our repeated failure to take up our demographic’s latent power. There are nearly 59 million United States citizens between the ages of 20 and 30, so why did only 35 percent of us exercise our constitutional rights on Tuesday...
...youth voter turnout makes absolutely no sense considering that young people had the most at stake in this election. Senior citizens and Baby Boomers vote in droves, but they won’t be the ones ultimately most affected by Tuesday’s implications. The scope of the issues directly relating to youth that the president will have to address over the next four years is staggering. There are four Supreme Court Justices over the age of 70 currently serving on the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is severely ailing and may resign within the year. The conservative...
Neighbor said polling locations increased their staffing levels 15 percent over the last presidential election in anticipation of turnout rates as high as 90 percent...
Sabino Piemonte of the Boston Election Department said that the unofficial active voter turnout rate was 68 percent in Boston...
Ward 7, Precinct 3—which includes all freshman dorms and Adams House as well as Cambridge residents—had an active voter turnout rate of 85 percent. Ward 4, Precinct 3 and Ward 8, Precinct 3—encompassing the River Houses except Adams—had a combined rate of 79 percent. Ward 8, District 1, covering the Quad Houses, had 88 percent...