thing to remember is that it takes the effort of the individual to give strength to the power of the whole.Today’s society, as a whole, tends to view young people as indifferent and blas about the world around them. However, students feel that they are tuned out by politics. According to the responses to the survey I gave, college students feel that the issues addresses do not pertain to them, and are not relevant to their lives. Issues such as Medicare, and what to do about social security are not a concern of young people and their lives right now. College students have a hard time looking into the future, and do not understand that eventually issues like this will affect them too. They also feel that politicians ignore them and their concerns. Take for example the bill proposed which requires the address on a person’s voter registration card to match their driver’s license, (http://www.studentadvantage.com/ article/0,1075,c8-i0-t0-a25585,00.html). This is a direct hit at the students, and they see it as a way they are being tuned out by politics. Politicians are trying to make it harder for them to vote, by making it harder for them to vote at school. Absentee ballots provide some solution for this problem, but not everyone takes advantage of this opportunity. In accordance with the above paragraph, the survey results also showed that many people cited their distance from home to be a major cause of their not voting. Many students, having just turned eighteen, registered right away to vote. Then, they went off to school, sometimes hours from home, and realized too late that they had forgotten to get an absentee ballot. In many cases, it was impossible for them to get home and vote. This factor alone was the major issue for a large percentage of people. Perhaps, it should be possible for all registered voters to vote in any district they could get to. This would open up the accessibility of the elec...
