By Louis Freedberg, EdSource
In the shadows of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the appallingly low turnout of youth voters in last November’s elections should raise an alarm about the future of our democracy.
According to a January report from the California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis, only 8.2 percent of eligible 18- to 24-year-olds voted statewide. In raw numbers, that translates to a mere 285,000 out of 3.5 million adults in that age group.
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