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...made and starred in. It earned an astounding $119 million at the North American box office, nearly five times as much as the previous top-grossing nonfiction film - his own Bowling for Columbine. That fall Moore, never a shy guy, used his newfound political bulk to get out the youth vote for the Democratic presidential ticket, touring 62 venues, most of them college campuses, in the 45 days before the election. He was such a big target that his enemies and enviers made feature-length documentaries against him, like Michael Moore Hates America...
...increase in youth interest has not been matched by an increase in the ease of voting,” said Alice J. Gissinger ’11, the student leader of H-VOTE, an IOP program aimed at aiding student voters...
...response to these rules, some are trying to facilitate youth voting using technology. At Harvard, the four-year-old H-VOTE program stages registration drives, mails registration and absentee applications, and keeps a database of 1,733 registered student voters, allowing the organization to alert students about registration deadlines or to vote on election...
...even if digital organizing is here to stay, high youth turnout could prove an aberration...
...Patterson said youth participation in non-presidential elections is now at “an all-time low.” As the country’s political attention shifts past the 2008 presidential race, he said, youth turnout may slip...