A recent Gallup poll found that just 26% of 18- to 29-year-olds are certain to vote in this year's

[randr]

midterm election—less than half of any other age group

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/young-voters-might-actually-show-up-at-the-polls-this-year/

This infuriates me, there outta be a law.

[dalton99a]

1. 50% of registered 18-35 y/o voters could turn out for the 2018 midterms in Texas

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/new-numbers-show-higher-young-voter-turnout-in-harris-county/285-607757466

Link to tweet

“We didn’t really expect that on Monday we would see a lot of voters under 35,” said Bob Stein, a Rice University political science professor and KHOU political analyst. “Big mistake.”

Stein crunched the data from a list of the record 63,000 Harris County voters who cast their ballot in-person Monday, the first day of early voting. He found 15 percent of all voters that day were under age 35. During the 2014 midterms, those voters made up about 8 percent of the total.

For a presidential year election, Stein said around 40 percent of 18-to-35-year-old registered voters turn out. However, he said if Monday’s trend continues, that rate for the 2018 midterms will be around 50 percent.

"That will mean a 10-point increase in what they perform in presidential elections, 2016, 2012," Stein said. "That's very unusual."

[Arkansas Granny]

2. That's really disappointing since they are the ones that will be most impacted by the results.

[bearsfootball516]

3. A law that forces you to vote?

That's about as undemocratic as it gets.

[randr]

6. Australian model, a fine for not voting

Democracy comes at a cost.
Personally, I would take the drivers license from people who chose not to participate.
No more free rides.

[Bfd]

4. Really pisses me off. This is why the call for "fresh faces" to replace the "establishment" Dems

is bulll shit.

They don't value nor have a clue.

[randr]

8. I voted against an Amendment in Colorado that would lower the age to serve public office

I figure if the youth want more power, let them take it. They have the numbers to do as they choose.

[Bfd]

12. I have no issue with younger people engaging in politics.

But when their most basic involvement is to vote, & they demonstrate & organize & hold their signs & get loud online but do not use their Vote, then I really wonder just why all the noise in the first place.

Don't drop the ball after the thrill of gathering at the rally is over, ffs.

[randr]

14. We all would love to see young people vote in record numbers

They could create whatever world they desire if they only knew it.

[Bfd]

17. Yup. And with their own future on the line so severely right now,

and with all the information they have so availible to them, there is no reason not to be motivated to use that right-to-vote.

[beachbum bob]

5. blame the parents who let their kids be buried in gaming...and not actually live in reality

no person should sit out elections and this is why we have what we have.

ok, go back to xbox now

[marylandblue]

7. It's a lower number than other polls have found

Other polls show young people planning to vote at record highs.

[Demsrule86]

9. Gallup is a very bad poll for the young who don't have house phones.

[JaneQPublic]

10. Gallup: Samples are weighted to correct for... landline and cell users

"They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cell phone-only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2017 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/243218/election-2018-trending180927.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_243173&g_medium=copy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like these poll findings are heavily massaged to compensate for all the people -- younger folks included -- whom they didn't actually survey.

Granted, they do this for most polls, but in this election more than any other they need to account for masses of first-time voters that wouldn't fit into their "likely voter" profiles.

[Cattledog]

11. This has been true for a long time.

Hopefully it changes this Nov.

[still_one]

13. I will wait until after the midterms before I believe this, but if this is the case, then

they will pay a very heavy price for their stupidity.

[randr]

15. We are all paying a price for their stupidity in the last election

[still_one]

16. of course