Katherine Westmoreland

Mar 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Christopher Karpowitz |Brigham Young |Katherine Westmoreland

Keywordscosts of voting, voter turnout experiment, electoral processCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractIn the 2014 presidential election, only 36% of eligible voters cast a ballot on Election Day. Voter turnout is especially low in non-presidential elections and the already bleak number of voters is heightened when examining young voters, withonly 21.3% of 18-19 year-olds voting in 2014.