By Annie Rubinson Just six years ago, in 2014, a Pew Research Center study of 10,000 Americans classified 17 percent of 18-29-year-old voters as “bystanders” at the polls. Two years later, voter turnout in this same age bracket for the 2016 presidential election was lower than in any other age group. But with students home for the spring and summer due to COVID-19, local governmental campaigns saw an uptick in participation from within this age group, and the rivertowns are [...]
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