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Voting Interest in Older White Adults
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5/23/2019

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Voting Interest in Older White Adults in USA
In the presidential election of USA, the candidates more focus on the different
demographic groups of voters. In the US election, it has been seen that older aged adult
people desperate for voting and the number of voters were more than 70% in 2018 election.
While if we compare the stats with young people then it can be found that around 46% of 18-
29 year old age people votes, while this percentage is almost 68% in 2018 (Figure. 1).
Fig.1 (Source: Brandon, 2012)
The older age white people are more caring about their valuable vote because they
prefer to protect their benefits, which they receive from the federal government. The federal
government of USA provides lots of retirement benefits, health benefits, and other benefits to
the old age people. The USA federal government provides many Medicare facilities and post-
retirement benefits to the old age people that encourage them towards voting in election
(Magstadt, 2016). The another thing is that when a person shifts from one place to another
place, he must re-register to vote while the young people forget to register or they do not
want to registering at the new address. The white old age people are more likely to reside at a
single pace for the long time among their community members and influenced by same age