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Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by digi_owl on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:38AM (#13237914)
> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.

Not quite. They do not vote on "old people". Why? Anything from simply age to not feeling older people understand their world and situation.

Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by austincheney on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:46AM (#13237991)
I have no idea what that means. Statistically young people don't vote. I think its close to around 6% of 18-24 year olds vote in presidential elections with a statistically insignificant amount voting in other elections.
Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by debaserab2 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:13AM (#13238195)
I don't know where you got those numbers from. The lowest I can find is in the 30% range for a presidential election. It's a bit disingenuous to write that off completely.

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics

Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by austincheney on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:34AM (#13238328)
http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CIRCLE_....

Turns out I was wrong. Youngsters aren't 6% of the vote, but closer to about 9%. Still tiny though. The data indicates people who are registered voters are about twice as likely to become a voter after the age of 25.

Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by ianburrell on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:59AM (#13238540)
You are confused about the difference between percentage of youngsters who vote, which is 40%, and the percentage of the total vote that are youngsters, which is 9%. But 18-24 is probably only 10% of the voting population.
Re:You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much by debaserab2 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:37PM (#13238848)
That link didn't work for me.