Turnout among young Texas voters exploded in 2018. Groups want to make it even bigger in 2020.
The next presidential election is more than a year away, but groups working to get young people in the state civically engaged have been beefing up their operations for a while.
One of those groups, MOVE Texas, has experienced a massive growth in staff, organizers and investments.
“Our budget has increased something near 900% in the past two years,” said Charlie Bonner, MOVE’s communications manager. “We are really seeing people start to invest in Texas in a way they never have before.”
Texas has one of the youngest populations in the country. In fact, only Utah, Alaska and the District of Columbia have younger populations — and not by much. It’s projected that by 2022, one in three voters in Texas will be under 30.
“There is a lot of potential there,” said Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. “Young folks don’t tend to register, don’t tend to vote at the same rates that older folks do.”
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