{"id":122566,"date":"2020-02-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/topics\/elections-and-voting"},"modified":"2020-09-08T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:16:58","slug":"elections-and-voting","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/topics\/elections-and-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections and Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 100 Million Project<\/a><\/h3>

The Untold Story of American Non-Voters Executive Summary In 2016, nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a vote for president, representing 43% of the eligible voting-age population. They represent a sizeable minority whose voice is not heard in our representative democracy. Most of our attention, in politics and in research, tends to fall [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Landmark study reveals opportunities to engage nearly 100 million Americans who don\u2019t vote<\/a><\/h3>

On February 19, 2020, Knight Foundation released a new study that sheds light on the 100 million Americans who don\u2019t vote, their political views and what they think about the 2020 election. Knight\u2019s Evette Alexander shares more below. View the report website, the full report and the full press release for more information. We\u2019re well [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/div>

February 19, 2020<\/div>Landmark study reveals opportunities to engage nearly 100 million Americans who don\u2019t vote<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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New study sheds light on the 100 million Americans who don\u2019t vote, their political views and what they think about 2020<\/a><\/h3>

Knight Foundation releases unprecedented survey of 12,000 non-voters, examining their political attitudes and behavior, including how they encounter information about politics and elections WASHINGTON \u2014 February 19, 2020 \u2014 As primary season heats up and voters cast their ballots during this presidential election year, the largest bloc of the electorate is a group of Americans [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/div>

February 19, 2020<\/div>New study sheds light on the 100 million Americans who don\u2019t vote, their political views and what they think about 2020<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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College Students, Voting and the COVID-19 Election<\/a><\/h3>

College students demonstrated some of the most dramatic surges in voter turnout for the 2018 midterm election of any voter group, prompting high expectations for their presence at the polls in 2020. Earlier this year, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released the 100 Million Project, a landmark study that surveyed 12,000 persistent [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/div>

August 24, 2020<\/div>College Students, Voting and the COVID-19 Election<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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2020 Poll: College students favor Biden and mail-in voting, but worry about election legitimacy<\/a><\/h3>

Just months away from a historic presidential election being held amid a deadly pandemic, a national reckoning on race and an unprecedented economic collapse, young people\u2014especially college students\u2014could help decide who wins the White House.    A poll of 4,000 students, taken Aug. 9 to 12 and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Nonvoters\u2019 media consumption habits may help determine turnout in 2020<\/a><\/h3>

A new Knight Foundation report finds that chronic non-voters\u2019 news diet may help shape whether or not they vote on Nov. 3. In 2016, with the presidency and both houses of Congress in play, close to 100 million eligible voters chose to sit out the election, making nonvoters a larger constituency than either the Democratic […]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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How Media Habits Relate to Voter Participation<\/a><\/h3>

The media environment during an election year has the potential to guide citizens toward informed participation in the democratic process. It can also turn people off from voting altogether. It can enlighten or mislead the electorate\u2014sometimes doing both at once.  In February 2020, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released the 100 Million […]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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At Knight Foundation we see engagement in the democratic process as more than just the act of voting. It should be embedded in every part of civic life, extending before and after an election. It is a chance for people to become and remain involved in their communities and to have a voice in local, state and national issues. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182018,"template":"","meta":{"knight_foundation_app_header_links":[],"knight_foundation_app_newsletter_config":"","knight_foundation_app_open_graph_description":"","knight_foundation_app_open_graph_image":0,"knight_foundation_app_open_graph_title":"","knight_foundation_app_subnav_title":"","knight_foundation_app_subnav_hide":false,"knight_foundation_app_table_of_contents":[],"_cr_original_post":"","_cr_replace_post_id":"","_cr_replacing_post_id":"","knight_foundation_app_topic_short_summary":"","knight_foundation_app_topic_summary":"At Knight Foundation we see engagement in the democratic process as more than just the act of voting. It should be embedded in every part of civic life, extending before and after an election. It is a chance for people to become and remain involved in their communities and to have a voice in local, state and national issues."},"tags":[],"communities":[],"challenges":[],"program-areas":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/122566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/122566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228312,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/122566\/revisions\/228312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122566"},{"taxonomy":"communities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/communities?post=122566"},{"taxonomy":"challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/challenges?post=122566"},{"taxonomy":"program-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program-areas?post=122566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}