"There's an enormous disconnect with younger citizens in understanding the impact that local governments have"

posted Jan 19, 2017 at 2:15 PM

Voter turnout among young adults is tends to be low in most elections, and as this article over at Governing highlights, it's usually very low in local elections -- especially compared the turnout among older adults. It references a study of voter turnout by age in a bunch of cities around the country, and looks at some ideas for increasing turnout among young adults. (We want to see if we can turn up this data for Albany and other places around here -- we suspect it's generally true here, too.) [Governing]

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