Voters under the age of 29 are enthusiastic about voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, but getting information on how to do that is a challenge for some, a new poll shows.
“The biggest flag for me is this need for guidance on, you know, basic ‘small d’ democratic processes like voter registration and vote by mail,” Kiesa told NBC News. “We clearly have some systemic issues in reaching young people with this information. And so these numbers, in a pandemic, when there's going to be fewer methods to reaching young people is a serious, serious concern.”
The CIRCLE/Tufts College poll surveyed 2,232 eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 from May 20 to June 18. It oversampled 18 to 21 year olds, Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinos and Young Republicans. The margin of error was +/- 4.1 percentage points. The poll showed that 34.5 percent of young Asian American voters and 25 percent of whites have had experience with voting by mail, compared to 22 percent of Blacks and 20% of Latinos. Those numbers were heavily influenced by geography — young Asian American voters are concentrated in Western states, where vote by mail is more common, while young Black voters are concentrated in the South, where an excuse is often required to vote absentee.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson told NBC News his organization has tested different approaches to increase voter turnout over the last two years, and in particular how they are working to convert activism over racial justice into momentum for votes in the fall. “That’s the opportunity we are presented with,” Johnson said. “When you look at the protesters it truly does look like America… The opportunity here is how do we get people to march from protest to actual voting in November, and that's some of the engagement that we are doing now and workers to drive initiating conversations towards the November election.”
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