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LizVerite

(30 posts)
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:35 PM Oct 2025

How to get nonvoters involved.

Does anyone here know much about why so many moderate or left leaning people didn't vote in 2024?

I'm especially interested in younger people. Gen Z and younger millennials.

We desperately need their vote.

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usonian

(26,593 posts)
1. Propaganda campaign aided by Russian bots to smear Gaza on Harris/Walz.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:53 PM
Oct 2025

I saw it.

Other lies, as well.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
2. I think many thought that Kamala was unbeatable against the imbecile
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 03:00 PM
Oct 2025

and didn't bother to vote.

In my state we have vote by mail so the temptation to skip it is not as strong.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,227 posts)
3. There are plenty of reasons people don't vote, but the main ones are barriers to voting (suppression and/or
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 03:17 PM
Oct 2025

accessibility) and not thinking their ballot matters. You can start there.

RockRaven

(19,754 posts)
4. A lot of poorly informed and/or idiotic people think that because they are not
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 03:20 PM
Oct 2025

interested in politics that politics does not affect them or that they cannot affect politics.

They are wrong, of course.

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