11 Facts About Voting

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1. In the 2024 presidential election, 40.8 million Gen Zers (ages 18-27 in 2024) will be eligible to vote, including 8.3 million newly eligible young voters (ages 18-19 in 2024) who will have aged into the electorate since the 2022 midterm election.
2. Based on reporting from the Center for Election Innovation and Research, in 2000, just 40% of voters had access to early voting, either in person or by mail and now, 97% have at least one option to vote before the 2024 General Election.
3. 46th President of the United States Joe Biden, became the only president in the nation’s history to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race after winning the Democratic primary.
4. In 2024, only 20 states allow for 16 year olds to pre-register to vote. This includes: Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New York, and more.
5. In the 2024 Election, New York City shattered early voter turnout on its first day, October 26th, making it the highest turnout in the city, with 140,000 voters.
6. In the 2020 presidential election, about 55% of voters aged between 18 and 29 participated in the election -- a significant increase from the previous election year, when about 44% of youths voted in the election, around the same rate as it was in 1972.
7. In 2022, there were 161 million people registered to vote in the United States, a decrease from the previous election, when 168 million people were registered to vote.
8. Following the 2022 midterm elections, exit poll data showed that an estimate of 27% of young voters (ages 18-29) cast their ballot. According to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, that 2022 midterm election had the second-highest youth voter turnout in almost three decades.
9. After Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for the 2024 Presidential Race, the singer’s custom voter registration link saw visits from 337,826 people.
10. If you are a college student you can usually register to vote in your hometown or where you go to college (depending on the residency requirements of your state). Because your voter registration is tied to where you live, you can legally only vote in one place.
11. According to Axios, during the 2024 presidential primary election, at least half of the 16 Super Tuesday states included an "uncommitted" line, no preference option or write-in slot on their Democratic ballot, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, North Carolina, and Alabama.

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