This chart shows the percentage of the U.S. population holding a driver's license, by age group (1983, 2008, 2018).| Statista Daily Data
More Americans will vote by mail this fall than ever before, as states expand mail voting laws in response to the coronavirus pandemic.| www.nytimes.com
As the 2022 state legislative sessions begin, lawmakers have already introduced more new restrictive voting legislation than at this time last year. They have also continued to introduce bills designed to undermine the electoral process.| Brennan Center for Justice
There's now a week until Election Day and—except in states that allow for same-day registration—voter registration deadlines have already passed across the country. Our snapshot of voter registration data reveals that, in 32 out of 40 states, registration among youth (ages 18-24) is higher today than it was in early November 2016.| CIRCLE
In the days and weeks after the 2020 election, CIRCLE’s initial analysis of young people’s participation highlighted a likely historic level of youth voter turnout.| circle.tufts.edu
Many efforts to increase youth voting focus on getting young people registered. That’s a crucial component to driving electoral engagement, but it’s only half the battle; we need to ensure that registered youth actually go out and cast a ballot on Election Day. In 2016, nearly six million young people (ages 18-29) were “undermobilized”—meaning they were registered but did not vote. The problem of undermobilization is even more acute in midterm elections: 12.5 million registered yout...| circle.tufts.edu
Throughout 2020 and 2021, CIRCLE has partnered with the Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services office, the YMCA of the North’s Center for Youth Voice, Auburn University, and a group of young leaders (i.e. paid Civic Scholars) to support and evaluate the influence of the youth poll worker program in that city.| circle.tufts.edu
We estimate that 50% of young people, ages 18-29, voted in the 2020 presidential election, a remarkable 11-point increase from 2016 (39%) and likely one of the highest rates of youth electoral participation since the voting age was lowered to 18. Our new estimate is based on newly available voter file data in 41 states—AK, DC, HI, MD, MS, NH, ND, UT, WI, WY do not have reliable vote history data by age.| circle.tufts.edu