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Zachary McKenney, co-director of the Hartwick Institute of Public Service, is joined by award winners Victoria Heilveil, Bastian Dudley, Grace Schultz, Elias House, Martha Dolan, Chase Birdsall, and Cooper Cohen, and Leslie Elder, co-director of the Hartwick IPS. (Photo by Teresa Winchester)

Youth Look To Engage Peers More Fully in Elections, Governance

By TERESA WINCHESTER
ONEONTA

Young people have the power to change the political landscape, as evidenced most dramatically in the 1960s with youth involvement in the civil rights movement and opposition to the U.S. military presence in Vietnam. In recent years, however, youth participation in politics, especially with regard to voting, appears to have dropped off.

Tufts University’s Tisch College Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement estimates turn-out from voters age 18-29 in the 2022 midterm elections to have been 20.7 percent in New York State. Simply put then, only one in five of the youth vote showed up at the polls in New York State for a high stakes midterm election.

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