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The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [1] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [2] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States , such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 3 ] however, young people also care about issues ...
The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960s and was driven in part by the military draft held during the Vietnam War. The draft conscripted young men between the ages of 18 and 21 into the United States Armed Forces, primarily the U.S. Army, to serve in or support military combat operations in ...
Disputes over youth suffrage have historically been linked to partisan efforts to restrict voting. The 1971 passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US. Constitution, which gave young people the vote at age eighteen, spurred conflicts with regard to where students should vote. Those who opposed allowing students to vote in their college ...
The largest margin for Democrats was in 2018, when the youth vote was 67% for Democrats to 32% for Republicans. “You go back into the '80s, [and] young people were voting Republican at a high ...
The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic, [3] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30. [4] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States, such as education issues and the juvenile justice system ; [ 5 ] however, young people also care about issues ...
A Vermont town has acted on the notion that young voters offer hope for the future, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote next week in local elections. Last year the Democratic-controlled ...
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
The amendment seeks to clarify that only citizens of the United States, over the age of 18 years and who are state residents are qualified electors. Oklahoma Republicans want voters to reword ...