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    Voting

    To get more young people voting, meet them where they are

    Niko Kluver
    August 10, 2022
    New Georgia Project voter registration

    Representatives of the New Georgia Project registers young people to vote at a festival kicking off Civic Season.

    Made By Us

    Kluver, a rising sophomore at George Washington University, is an intern with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Made By Us.

    If I asked a random person on the street today, “What are your voting plans for the midterm elections in just a few months?” I would probably receive strange looks. People would respond, “What’s that?” Or some would likely say, “There’s no point in voting as my voice doesn’t matter anyways.”

    But FiveThirtyEight found that 60 percent of people who “rarely or never vote” said the 2020 presidential election results really mattered to them. So why aren’t they turning out to vote?

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