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Youth voter turnout on the rise as millions come of age

Alberto Medina, spokesperson for CIRCLE, says that “young people really vote and engage based on the issues that they care about, and that is what often drives and motivates their participation in the electoral process.” CIRCLE data on issues that are important to young voters is included.

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Caroline Soler’s Deep Dive Into Voter Data

The senior has been crunching the numbers as an analyst on a major election survey

The New York Sun

Largest Poll of the Election Cycle Finds Harris with a Majority of Support Nationwide as Tens of Millions Cast Early Ballots

The latest data from Tisch College's Cooperative Election Study, conducted by YouGov, of American voters ahead of the presidential election is discussed in this article.

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Forbes

How Educators And Leaders Can Prepare For Post-Election Uncertainty

Associate Dean Peter Levine is quoted at length about how educators can help prepare students for potential domestic political unrest by sharing historical context, teaching nonviolence, and cultivating constructive methods for achieving social change. Levine’s "Blog for Civic Renewal" is also referenced.

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Will Celebrity Endorsements Sway the Presidential Election?

Harris vs. Trump may well come down to Taylor vs. Elon in some battleground districts, says Tufts expert on youth voting

HuffPost

Get In Loser, We're Going Voting: How Young Women Are Shifting Left

Abby Kiesa of CIRCLE comments on increased civic engagement among young women saying, “The last presidential election, we saw young women turn out at rates higher than their peers who identify as men in every race and ethnicity for which we had data.” Multiple CIRCLE studies are referenced.

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BBC

The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”

Two distinct red and blue ballot boxes, representing Democrats and Republicans, as two hands carefully insert their votes into the ballot boxes. Research from past elections show that they often don’t end up voting, and it’s unclear how undecided they really are

How Will Undecided Voters Affect the Presidential Election?

Past elections show that they often don’t end up voting, and it’s unclear how undecided they really are, say Tufts researchers

NBC News

How one Minnesota college got nearly 90% voter turnout - and is pushing for more

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.”

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