I know I keep harping on this, but I just can't understand it. Sanders's movement is real and passionate, so was Howard Dean's, so was a raft of others. But between the under-30 voter and the voting booth falls The Shadow
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People are full of just-so stories about how the kids have classes to attend, and the lines for voting are 10 hours long, they don't have a steady address, and any other excuse you can mention, but this age pattern among *registered voters* holds true in vote-by-mail states too
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The excuses are endless, but the pattern has held for many decades
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I agree with you entirely! My comments are directed at people who try to explain the very large turnout gap by pointing to these barriers. The barriers are real, but the age-related turnout gap is also real, and mostly independent of them.
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Because my understanding of the age gap is that it holds across jurisdictions with very different voting practices (including vote by mail and same-day registration). And it's really dramatic, older people vote 2-3x as often as the young, despite the same barriers to voting
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i don’t think you’ve shown the barriers to voting are the same at all though?
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What is the age-dependent barrier to voting?
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