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How can universities encourage young people to vote?

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This past February, when many of their peers were still asleep, a group of Tufts University students got on a bus to New Hampshire to take advantage of a once-every-four-years opportunity: seeing presidential candidates making their final pitch to voters.

Research shows that campaigns that directly contact young people boost youth turnout. Knocking...

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