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There Are 8 Million Teens Eligible to Vote
Students are using lunch drives and free donuts to motivate their classmates.
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... In the end, she managed to register 186 students. "We drove home the point that voting is the best way to hold people in power accountable," she said. "We reminded them that we take our right to vote for granted. It's a privilege that other teens around the world sometimes don't get." This is how New Voters, a nonpartisan nonprofit, operates -- by connecting high school students passionate about civic engagement to the resources they need to galvanize their peers. Founder Jahnavi Rao, 24, registered 85% of eligible voters at her high school as a senior in 2017. Soon after, high schoolers across the country were reaching out to her to ask how they can do the same. ...
This is how New Voters, a nonpartisan nonprofit, operates -- by connecting high school students passionate about civic engagement to the resources they need to galvanize their peers. Founder Jahnavi Rao, 24, registered 85% of eligible voters at her high school as a senior in 2017. Soon after, high schoolers across the country were reaching out to her to ask how they can do the same. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 01:48 PM | Reply
I love Barely Legal... voters.
#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-08-18 04:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
The large majority of these voters will cast a ballot for VPOTUS Harris, and the pollsters have no way to poll them. Since they are first-time voters they don't show up in the LV polls yet according to those that work with them GenZ is very motivated and eager to vote for the first woman of color for POTUS. Plus, they famously don't answer calls from unknown numbers. This is why whatever number Harris has in the polls, she is probably plus another two to four percent.
#3 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-08-18 05:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
@#3 ... according to those that work with them GenZ is very motivated and eager to vote ...
I hear that also.
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 06:00 PM | Reply
Better send them all a text or three, two Instagram alerts and some Facebook invites, to get their attention. Rumor has it that the Trump campaign is planning a big email blitz, to gain the attention of...well, someone...
#5 | Posted by catdog at 2024-08-19 09:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
And like 31 of these teens will actually show up.
#6 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-08-19 11:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"And like 31 of these teens will actually show up."
Ok, boomer.
#7 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-08-19 04:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
I remember voting as a teen. :')
8 million folks aged 18-19 seems low, but I have no other data to compare that number to offhand across past elections.
#8 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-08-19 05:23 PM | Reply
David Hogg says these teens understand that the only way to save the world from climate change, to regain bodily autonomy, to get sensible gun legislation and everything else GenZ cares about is by VOTING!
#9 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-08-19 05:37 PM | Reply
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