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Why young people voted

This generation, as I found out in doing our film, is probably the smartest ever and does care about issues, especially housing and the environment, but it's also easily turned off by conventional politics. However, when young people talk to other young people about voting it seems to work.

The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote, the one-hour TVO and CPAC 2015 documentary, follows actor and filmmaker Dylan Playfair across North America who is trying to find out why millennials don't vote. Screen capture from The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote

Opinion

BY IAN WADDELL

July 10, 2017

VANCOUVER—In the recent British election—if you can believe the exit polls and a number of newly elected Labour MPs—young people came out and voted. But the millennials, aged 18 to 24, stayed home for the Brexit vote. Only 36 per cent of them voted then, versus 80 per cent of those over 65 wh...

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