Don't let anyone tell you young people don't show up to vote.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[MLAA]

1. At a glance looks like 90% women.

The good news is young women are reacting to losing their reproductive rights. Hope they can convince their partners and buddies to vote as well.

[Fla Dem]

12. Most affected by states' abortion bills.

Young guys don't get it like young women do.

[republianmushroom]

2. I like it.

[Walleye]

3. This is so encouraging

[vercetti2021]

4. I did!

Well I'm in the 30-39 graphic but my girlfriend is 29 so she counts in that voting bloc!

[Jim__]

5. How long does it take to get through that line?

If the line is always (often) that long, they need a better, faster way to vote.

[lostnfound]

7. Intentional suppression.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/28/texas-young-voter-turnout-access/

[brer cat]

8. Republican governors and SOS make sure there are long lines for students

since they are more like to vote Dem. Ditto for people of color.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. The line usually looked like that at my voting precinct, ...

... twenty people waiting for the polls to open at 7am.

A few differences: before the polls open, it's very dark outside at my precinct, and, in the line at my precinct, there is very little hair pigment.

Good to see young voters voting.

[OMGWTF]

17. Every state should have 100% mail-in voting!

It works great in eight states and the military has used it since the Civil War. There's no reason not to do this except that it makes it harder for the Rethuglicans to fk with our elections.

[LiberalArkie]

24. I am sure that DeJoy would love it.

[uponit7771]

28. +1,

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. I'm convinced the Republicans in Florida are making mail-in voting instructions...

deliberately vague and confusing. I have helped a number of college students navigate the stupid instructions this year. Several were about to give up in frustration, but I calmed them down and walked them through it.

For those tempted to condescend to these kids, I am in my 50s and have voted in every election I was eligible. I have voted in person on Election Day, in person early voting, and absentee ballot in four states. I have never seen such vague online instructions in my life. It took me a few minutes to figure out what the Supervisor of Elections' email to one of these kids was saying and the website was not much better. I don't fault novice voters for their frustration.

These kids are at school four to five hours away from their home counties where they are registered to vote....yep, solid red counties at that.

[lostnfound]

6. Not good though, it's bad

In Texas Governor Abbott moved or reduced polling places near student campuses so much that the 70000 students at Texas a&m have to go off campus for early voting 14 miles away.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/28/texas-young-voter-turnout-access/

[Sogo]

9. Love it!

[Rebl2]

10. I voted

the other day, but there were just a few young people. Most were 40 or older and felt most were women.

[catbyte]

11. Good for them. Something tells me they're not lining up for hours just to vote for the

thug currently occupying the Statehouse and his crooked AG/assorted toadies.

This gives me hope, but I get so angry that those assholes are making it this difficult to vote in areas not infested with MAGAts.

[judesedit]

13. Freakin awesome

[Wild blueberry]

14. Hurray!

Even though they shouldn't have to wait in long lines, they're doing it anyway.
Warms my heart and soul.
Thank you.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. When I was in college, my mother sent me absentee ballots since my school was far from my home

And when I worked for my congressman's campaign, I advised parents who called on how to do the same for their kids also away at school.

[NNadir]

18. Cooler than cool! n/t.

[onecaliberal]

19. They are voting. The media is gaslighting and just outright lying now.

[stage left]

22. I can't figure out

why the media seem to be rooting for a fascist dictatorship. Are they already with straight out lying?

[Efilroft Sul]

25. They lie for two reasons.

1. If the media can make it a horserace, it drives up ad revenues with both parties, both campaigns, and surrogates paying for air time.
2. The media are only as liberal as the corporations that own them. They and their anchors have different tax concerns than you and I.

[stage left]

32. "Already" in my post should have read "all right."

Are they all right with lying? And I guess the obvious answer is "Yes, they are." All they care about is making a buck, or as many bucks as they can. They're not concerned with having to hew to a dictator's line, because they're already doing it for the most part; the free press is already an illusion.

[phoenix75]

20. This is great to see!

There is hope!!

[Demnation]

21. Go Longhorns! My alma mater. I do miss Austin so.

[Cha]

23. Fantastic! All those who keep

saying that can be disregarded.

TY

[SWBTATTReg]

26. Wow! Just wow!

[littlemissmartypants]

27. ❤️

[niyad]

29. Dear Goddess, that line!! Gives me hope. Makes me wish TX pols get

everything they deserve.

[nitpicked]

30. It's access

IF there is a "vote here" on campus, IMO people will show up.

IF instead it's a bus ride to the nearest point, a five-minute walk to the voting place, another ten-minute walk to home...

Historically in my precinct, voting in person is a burden on those in the garden apartments who are dependent on mass transit.

The 2020 presidential primary was an anomaly, as more than a handful of those residing in the garden apartments SHOWED UP.

((I've sat out working at the polls since, didn't want to bring COVID home.))

[Marius25]

33. Compared to the 50-65+ demographic though

they're still showing pretty low turnout. That's always been the concern.

[senseandsensibility]

34. Just saw this on MSNBC!

to the young people!

[elocs]

35. Sorry, I'll believe it when I see the results of it actually having happened.

Too many on the Left are fickle and undependable voters, but if everybody on the Left is not motivated to vote in this midterm I have no idea what it would take to do it.

[Genki Hikari]

36. One polling place does not a trend make

Show me young people who aren't attending a college known for having high political engagement like UT. How about an Austin community college campus? Or Mary Hardin-Baylor University just north of there?

Or polling locations with young people who don't go to college at all?

I'd rather see real numbers, not wishful thinking anecdotes.