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In The Third Of Five Reports In A Week-Long Series On Voting In America,

Kathleen Schalch looks at potential voters in their late teens and early 20's. There is widespread cynicism about the political system among 18-to-24 year-olds and uncertainty as to how many will bother to vote. In the last Presidential election, voters under 30 made up about 20-percent of total participants.

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