Stalking the wily young voter
A new report on Washington’s efforts to promote voting by 18 year olds concludes that outreach efforts help, but carry a price tag and aren’t a silver bullet for engaging youth. The report is from the non-profit project called the Pew Center on the States’ Election Initiatives. Researchers worked with the state Elections Division and the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University. Researchers tracked the state’s 2008 pilot project to encourage young people to register as they…