Young People Turned Out to Protest, But Will They Vote?

[TomCADem]

Here is the thing. All these protests are worthless if at the end of the day, people are prevented from voting or simply fail to show up. Republicans will definitely make it hard to vote, by reducing polling places and taking advantage of the procastination of young people by refusing to consider mailed ballots that are cast before the election, but arrive late due to DeJoy. The best way to protest is to vote.

[SheltieLover]

1. Imo, Joe should discuss decriminalization or legalizing weed

This will get them to the polls. 👍

[JI7]

2. It didn't get them to polls in previous elections where it was on the ballots. But why don't they

care about issues like racism, sexism, anti gay bigotry, anti semitism etc ? Why wouldn't these issues get them to polls ?

[SheltieLover]

3. Perhaps it would this time

I don't know that bigger issues are not of concern to them. But Joe taking this action could get them excited & motivate some to get off their duffs & vote.

It would help, I feel, to give them hope for fairness.

This is not a personal issue for me, other than that it is ridiculous to outlaw something that has a calming effect, while alcohol flows like water for some, with disasterous societal consequences.

[JI7]

4. Why didn't it before ? I think it's just fucked up selfish but it's also not true

since it didn't get them to come out in previous elections where it was a specific issue on the ballot.

[SheltieLover]

6. That's your opinion.

It's a win/win, imo, to potentially draw more people to the polls.

[JI7]

7. It's not my opinion, it's a fact it did not bring them out to vote before.

And Trump killing people doesn't bother them is fucked up.

[TomCADem]

8. They Care Enough to Protest, Yet Voting Is Incredibly Inconvenient...

...in areas where there are few polling places, plus extreme restrictions to early voting or vote by mail. The best way to oppress young people is to make voting as tedious and boring as possible.

[virgogal]

5. My opinion.they are internet people,they

would all vote if it was on-line. They mail nothing,they message.Sad.

[ancianita]

9. I think they will turn out. Especially suppressed black voters.

It’s not apathy, it’s voter suppression. That includes not just the active efforts by some Republican officials to reduce turnout by closing polling places, limiting hours and kicking people prematurely off the voter rolls, but also the specific challenges that the voting system poses for young people.

... Democrats (and Joe Biden in particular) could benefit significantly if young people turned out to vote in 2020 — they will make up 37% of eligible voters in November, in a moment when a progressive and diverse Gen Z is beginning to fully age into the electorate...

the 2020 presidential election could mirror the high youth turnout of the 2018 midterm. That year, in the wake of the gun violence prevention protests and the rise of the March for Our Lives movement, there was a huge increase in voter registration that rivaled that of 2016. At the ballot box, that translated into the highest level of youth turnout in any midterm over the last 25 years...

The Voter Participation Center, a nonprofit organization that focuses on turning out “young people, people of color, and unmarried women,” saw a 250% increase in online voter registration applications in the days following the George Floyd protests. Their research also shows that Gen Z is much more interested in voting than millennials were at their age...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-31/young-voters-suppression-2020-election-pandemic