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’Warning: you may have to get off your iPhone’

Why youth don’t vote
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Writing over at Open File, Spencer Keys challenges the received wisdom of why youth don’t vote:

In the meantime, let’s stop listening to the armchair strategists that think youth voter turnout can be raised by raising awareness among those who were already going to vote, and start doing the hard work of engaging the silent, unreached masses. Warning: you may have to get off your iPhone.

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