Nova Scotia election: A look at efforts to get young people to vote

Voter turnout has been connected the diminution for years, and the lowest information rates are among the youngest voters.

During the past provincial predetermination successful 2021, lone 5 per cent of Nova Scotia voters were successful the 18-to-24 property group.

Student groups are aiming to alteration that.

“We’re hosting MLA and campaigner debates crossed the state and ensuring that there’s besides immoderate competitions, incentives, and ensuring that students are pledging truthful that by the clip predetermination time does rotation around, they’ll person everything that they request to get to the ballots,” said G Saleski, the enforcement manager of Students Nova Scotia, a not-for-profit advocacy radical representing post-secondary students successful the province.

Students Nova Scotia is taking portion successful the Get Out the Vote campaign, which provides in-person elector accusation sessions. As well, determination volition beryllium polling stations connected assemblage campuses crossed Nova Scotia.

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“Students are the adjacent government. Students are the adjacent workforce. We’re already a portion of it. We’re already contributing,” Saleski said.

“And it’s important that the issues that we’re facing are going to beryllium reflected successful immoderate the adjacent authorities looks like.”

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