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Youth Vote '96 is a nation-wide umbrella organization whose goal is to increase voter turnout among young people between 18 and 24 years of age. Although comprised of 17 different groups, Youth Vote is mainly supported by various state Public Interest Research Groups, organizations founded by Ralph Nader to promote awareness among American consumer-citizens; Campus Green Vote, which seeks to raise awareness of environmental issues; and Rock the Vote, an organization which works with the entertainment industry to mobilize young people...
...would like to lend our full-fledged support to Youth Vote, which seems a solid, well-thought-out attempt to combat voter apathy in the United States. And voter apathy is certainly a problem. According to conference organizer Ivan Frishberg, who is also higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the overall voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election was 63.1 percent, and the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was only 43 percent. Turnouts for non-presidential elections are usually much lower...
There are indicators, however, that America may be trending towards greater political involvement. While low in absolute terms, the turnouts for the 1992 election were greater by several percentage points than those for 1988. And six million citizens were registered last year by the motor-voter campaign, 40 percent of whomwere in the 18- to 24-year-old range...
James Endersby is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. This spring, his research will focus on political ideology, media consumption and voter choice...
...While Americans over the next few months hear [Republican] debates over anti-abortion planks and repealing assault weapons bans, it's important to remind the American voter who's been fighting for their interests for the past three years," Gruber says...