Absentee and Early Voting by Youth in the 2020 Election

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https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/absentee-and-early-voting-youth-2020-election

October 30, 2020

"In every state we're tracking, the youth share of the early vote is higher than in 2016, and in eight states youth have already cast more votes than the 2016 presidential margin of victory.

More than 7 million young people (ages 18-29) have already voted early or absentee in the 2020 elections, including over 4 million in 14 key states that may well decide the presidency and control of the United States Senate. And, in 13 states, the youth share of the early vote (meaning, the percentage of all early votes in a state, absentee or in-person, that have been cast by youth), is higher than it was as of this point in 2016.

As part of our analysis of young people’s participation in 2020, we’re tracking early voting by young people—both in person and by mail. Earlier this cycle, we raised concerns about the challenges faced by young people who had to learn about voting by mail/absentee (something low-income youth of color and Black youth have had less access to) amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Now we’re getting an early look into whether, and how strongly, youth may be navigating these new or changing election processes.

Below, we highlight early voting data for youth in states where our Youth Electoral Significance Index suggests young voters can be highly influential. We also include Texas, which is emerging as a presidential battleground and setting early voting records. The data includes youth votes cast as of 7 days before the 2020 Election (October 27), total ballots requested by youth (whether by mail or during in-person early voting) as of that date, and the total votes cast by young people (early AND on Election Day) in each state in the 2016 election.

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In every state we’re tracking, the number of absentee and early votes cast as of seven days before Election Day is far higher than at the same point in 2016. The numbers are especially dramatic in a state like Texas, where more than 1 million young people have already cast ballots, nearly approaching the 1.2 million total votes cast by youth (both early and on Election Day) in 2016."

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1. Hope so because when youth vote they vote D and will likely vote in Future

[lagomorph777]

2. Reptilicans have lost this generation forever.

[beachbumbob]

3. SECRET BIDEN VOTERS and most pollsters miss this demographic

end of the day if Biden wins Texas, its 100% becasue of this demographic

[Thekaspervote]

4. Yes they are voting..and it isn't for the dotard

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[Hortensis]

5. THIS Republican Party has lost its usual share

Corrupted, treasonous, kleptocracy serving, extremist, white male dominated, taken over by social and Christian conservatives trying to drag the nation back to before the 1930s. Destroying the economic futures of half our youth, Extorting decades of college debt as a cost of social mobility — or just remaining in the middle class like their parents, and of course adding their own pandemic holocaust and crimes against humanity to our heritage.

Gee, big surprise.

Back around 2012 or so, a statistician said that if only an additional 5% of young people voted, it would change everything. Most would have rejected what the Republican party had become already and shifted power across the nation.

Tragically delayed, but.

As for the future, of course rejecting today’s republican party doesn’t mean somehow becoming liberals by default. roughly half of today’s younger people are going to average conservative by personality as well as nurture overall; and increasingly as they mature (notably a significant jump as they become parents), they’ll want to elect representatives who feel as they do.

But not THESE.

Someone pointed out that, as always happens, most of today’s Republicans/right leaners, once trumpism has failed/been rejected, will eventually deny they were ever part of it. That’ll presumably be helped along by those kids and grandkids who’d already learned not to talk politics with them.