Why Don’t Young Folks Vote?

Laurie Levy
4 min readDec 12, 2019

Millennials Need to Step Up in November 2020

When I voted early in the 2018 midterm election, I ran into several people I knew. There was a line at a random time on a Friday afternoon. I was impressed. Folks were doing their civic duty. Well, turns out that about half of eligible Americans voted, an improvement over the 30 percent turnout in 2014. In 2018, among those age 65 and older, voter turnout was 65 percent…

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Laurie Levy

Boomer. Educator. Advocate. Eclectic topics: grandkids, special needs, values, aging, loss, & whatever. Author: Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real.