Rookersh posted:

I think more states should look at Minnesota.

You can register same day, there are voting booths set up in schools/everywhere so you can vote after class, you can email in your vote, etc etc.

Guess what, Minnesota averages 75% ( The country average is 40% last I checked ) voter turnout. It can easily reach up to 85-90% voter turnout for Presidential elections. Minnesotans, including young adults vote.

Young people don't not vote because they don't care. They don't vote because they can't. They don't vote because they have to work that day, and when you work retail there aren't enough people to cover you leaving just so you can go vote. They don't vote because they can't lose the $50 they'd make going to work that day if they hope to eat that month. They don't vote because millennials are the least mobile generation, and having to bus to a voting booth is hard to justify. They don't vote because most of them work two jobs, and figuring out how to vote in that is near impossible. They don't vote because giving up 4-5 hours of their day waiting in line is a sacrifice they can't give.

The Elderly are stable voters because none of this effects them. If you are retired, you can go to vote whenever you feel like it. Waiting in line is fine, it's a civic duty and it's not like there's anything else you need to do. Elderly people drive, so getting to a voting booth is easy, etc etc.

The solution isn't to take the vote away from the Elderly. It's to make voting easier for younger generations, and to encourage higher voter turnout.