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THUNDER BAY — A final report on last year’s municipal election sparked ruminations over depressed turnout among residents under 40 years old, only about a quarter of whom showed up to the polls.
“This is probably the high school teacher in me and how well our civics seems to be working, where if you’re under 40, you’re basically not voting,” he said. “I’m shocked at how low that data is.” “I was really disappointed with our numbers – I really wanted to reach the 50 per cent,” she said. “To be at the 43 was challenging for our team, considering all the time and effort we put in to try to make voting so accessible.”
He said he encourages the city to consider steps like creating platforms where candidates can directly interact with youth, to increase use of social media channels, and to collaborate with youth-led organizations to promote elections. “If you analyze policy, you quickly see that decision-making at pretty much every level of government cater to those who turn out,” he said. “So it’s like a negative feedback thing, where the Boomers generally turn out in the greatest numbers proportionally to their demographic, so politicians cater to them the most, and youth historically have not been catered to that much.”
“The one thing that has proven to get youth turning out is not politicians reaching out, but politicians actually centring young people in their campaign platforms and coming through with substantive policy.”“When you do that, of course, you’re necessarily sacrificing some of your energy and platform space that would be devoted to the sure-thing voters, the Boomers. So it’s a gamble, and usually politicians … go for the sure thing, which is the Gen X and Boomers.
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