Jen McAndrew comments on state laws that create barriers for young voters, saying, “We believe when it comes to young people and voting, we don’t actually have an apathy problem. We have an access problem.”
This article cites data from NSLVE that showed the national voting rate of community college students was nearly ten percentage points lower than that of four-year college students in 2020.
Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, weighs in on the lackluster campaign against Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 on whether to drop the state’s MCAS requirement for graduation.
Kelly Siegel-Stechler of CIRCLE says the center’s research indicates many young people “are concerned that the country is headed in the wrong direction” but are “really invested in and show up and care about particular issues that matter to them.”
Sara Suzuki of CIRCLE discusses issues that are consistently important to young voters, noting they are very good at “seeing issues as a constellation of related matters.”