On February 6th, young people turned out to the polls as New Jersey held its Democratic and Republican primaries. Exit poll data indicates that 187,889 young people voted in Tuesday's primary, making up 11% of the electorate, according to a study by CIRCLE. These turnout rates are expected to go up when final counts are in.
Many of the early primaries have seen a trippling or even quadrupling of the youth turnout, compared to the primary in 2000.
At Rutgers, NJPIRG Student Chapters, RU Voting, student governments and many other groups spent the 5th working on getting young people out to the polls.
