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The mid term elections in November drew renewed attention to the importance of the youth vote as well as the challenges that the youth voters face. Statistically, young voters can make a huge difference in the outcome of an election. In 2010, the turnout of young adults ages 18 to 25 to vote was just 21%. In the 2012 election for president, Obama earned at least 61% of young voters in Florida Virginia Pennsylvania and Ohio. If Romney had of split the youth vote with Obama he could have won all together. Why are Georgia college students ages 18 to 25 not voting and why does it matter. College students 18 to 25 typically feel as if their vote is not as important as and older adult.
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Although federal courts have ruled that students are allowed to vote using their address of residency at their universities, state and local laws can be stricter. This gets in the way with voter ID laws, as a conflict of the address on their ID and of the residence they are using to vote could result in them being turned away from the polls. Yet access to the voting both has gotten more complicated because of intentional and unintentional misinformation, like previous claims that registering to vote at school could mess up your eligibility for financial aid. 18% of young American voters ages 18 to 25 lacks the identification that their states require for them to be able to vote. Also these young adults change addresses more frequently, which has a negative effect on their ability to cast their vote. Some young voters don’t cast their vote in college because these students have moved away from home sometimes more than once to a different town. These students don’t feel as if they are connected to the town that they live in and don’t feel as if they need to cast their vote in the temporary town they reside