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 <title>Re: Young voter registration still lags</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;most of them are just plainly too dumb to vote with any sense of history, which has been taken out of government screwls and/or rewritten as lies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we dont want them voting.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:03:58 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>FFC1304</dc:creator>
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	&lt;div class=&quot;field-item&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nearly one-fourth of college-age students are not registered to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new report from the Young Voters Index found that 200,000 citizens aged 18 to 25 still have not registered, even though about 90,000 new registrations have been recorded since January.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In all 23 percent of young adults have not registered, compared to less than 20 percent of adults over the age of 25. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Young people are participating more than they did four years ago, but they still have tremendous potential to do so much more,&amp;quot; said Bob Hall, executive director of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracy-nc.org/&quot;&gt;Democracy North Carolina&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;About 134,000 young people voted during the May primary — four times as many as in 2004. But the rate of participation for young people was the lowest of any age group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many state universities have early voting sites where students can register and vote on the same day. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1187093.html&quot;&gt;N&amp;amp;O&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:31:24 -0400</pubDate>
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