November 11, 2014
The St Cloud Times recently published a story featuring Andy Burns, the LPMN Executive Director, about the mindset of young voters and their attitudes toward voting: why they vote, why they don’t vote, and what they expect following the midterm election.
The 2014 midterm election is over, with about 2 million ballots finding a box in Minnesota. According to exit polls reported by ABC News, 35 percent of Minnesota voters in the election were younger than 45. Views on voting among those 700,000 vary, and they will help shape campaigns, elections and government in the future.
Some young Minnesotans might feel indifferent; none with whom the Times spoke was lacking in spirit.
Andy Burns, 26, said the two-party system is flawed and represents the “biggest disenfranchisement” affecting young people.
“We could bring in so many more voters if we have a more diverse political system,” he said. “You need big changes in how voting is done before people feel like, ‘Hey something’s changed, the lesser of two evils thing is gone, I can vote my conscience.'”
One of the ways to change how people vote, which Burns advocates, is ranked-choice voting, where people rank multiple candidates in order of preference.”
Read the full story here.
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