“It’s hard to say for sure why that is,” Watkins said. “But it definitely seems to be a pattern not just here, but kind of everywhere across the country.”
In the August primary election, only 24% of King County voters in the lowest age bracket, 18 to 24, voted. The same election saw almost 65% turnout among voters 65 and older. While Watkins says recent youth voter turnout in King County does not indicate any major shifts toward higher youth engagement from previous years, a 2020 survey by Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement found 27% of 18- to 24-year-olds reported participating in protests that year,
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