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Originally posted by AGDee
I have no research or anything to back this up, but I have to wonder if people that age feel kind of helpless about what goes on in the world. Before 18, most decisions are made for you and you just have to go along with things. You haven't made a whole lot of big decisions for yourself. Professors in college still treat you like juveniles (like having attendance policies) and the college environment gives you little control over anything (they are very dictatorlike toward their customers, the students). Maybe they think they can't really make a difference because nobody listens to their opinions or lets them act like adults most of the time.
Dee
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Younger people are far less capable at dealing with bureaucracies, and the whole electoral process is bureaucratic.
Once someone has voted once, that person is more likely to vote again. As you sample an older age group, you will see more people who have finally voted at least once.