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A 4 page essay that explains young voter apathy and how this appears to be improving for the 2004 presidential election. The writer then argues that student apathy toward voting is part of a systemic problem of US voter apathy in general. The writer traces this problem to the use of the Electoral College and argues that if this institution were dissolved and the president was elected by popular vote, it would revitalize the citizenry in regards to voting. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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science professor Sheldon Kamieniecki, the non-voting record of students is part of a vicious cycle (Nichols, 2004). Young people do not vote because the candidates do not appear to be
addressing issues that they care about, but their tendency not to vote means that candidates have no strong motivation to change their behavior and address issues that are meaningful to
young people, so young people dont vote and on it goes. In a Harvard Institute of Politics study conducted in July (2004) it was found that only 26 percent of
student believed that the Bush campaign addressed significant issues and 50 percent thought similarly about the Kerry campaign (Nichols, 2004). The good news is that this poll also suggests
that this election year may provide a break in the vicious cycle of youth non-voting as 75 percent of the college undergraduates interviewed said that they would definitely vote (Nichols,
2004). This figure has increased from 70 percent in March. Various student organizations have been attempting to combat voter apathy through voter registration events and other activities, such as "debate-watching
parties" held on the nights of the presidential and vice-presidential debates (Nichols, 2004). Nevertheless, it is also true that on election day, millions of young voters, like many in
the rest of the electorate, will not vote. A June 14, 2004 editorial in Business Week asserts that this is because democracy in America is "broken" (p. 104). This editorial
points out that millions of Americans will not vote because they do not believe their vote counts, and--basically--this is a reasonable conclusion unless they live in one of seventeen battleground
states (Democracy in America, 2004). Because of the Electoral College "winner takes all" system, 2.4 million Democrats in Texas can be assured that their vote will not count because
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