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 The article I read was written by Elliot Morris, a fourth-year student of government and history at the University of Texas at Austin. He begins by stating a familiar problem our society is facing in the election process, simply getting the younger voters, ages 18-29, to the polls and vote. He claims that if more of the younger voters take initiative and vote the democratic party would see heavy resuilts. Backing up his claim he provides a survey, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. this survey asked 64,000 American adults their political beliefs. Elliot goes on to discuss the results of the survey which simply states that the majority of the participants (all of which were under the age of 30) identified as either Democrat or learning-democrat. another group of the survey identified as liberal. 

 If these men and women actually took initiative to vote in the past election we could've seen a drastic change in the outcome of the election. Not to mention in recent years the younger voters brought up to be Republicans are now reconsidering and switching. 

 Elliot's purpose for writing this article is to inform and educate the younger voters that we are only harming ourselves and our political power by not taking the initiative as an American citizen. All votes add up so each one counts as demonstrated in this article people have an opinion just choose not to act upon those thoughts and values. 

 Elliot uses reliable sources to support his argument with multiple surveys and statistics pulled from highly respected organizations. I agree with what he has to say and credit him for his research. 




https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/upshot/how-much-can-the-youth-vote-actually-help-democrats.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

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