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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

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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.

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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.
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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.
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