“The results don’t startle me,” said Peter Levine, director of Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. “I’ve often encountered young people who say that the reason they don’t think they personally should vote is they’re not well-informed, and they take that as kind of a moral position that they’re not really qualified to vote.”
Exit polls show that those young Americans who did vote this year reported paying a significant amount of attention to the election.
“What you end up with is a youth electorate that probably is pretty well-informed. ... If anything, they might be putting themselves through too stringent a test, knocking out some people who are informed enough,” Levine said.
