this youngest cohort has participated in elections at lower rates than their slightly older peers. Now these youth, many of whom are new to the voting process, have to contend with the additional difficulties of voting during a pandemic.In this survey, youth aged 18 to 21 were more likely than those aged 22 to 29 to say they did not know if their state had online registration: 36% vs.
29%. Only a quarter of those aged 18 to 21 have voted by mail before, but there are major regional differences: 46% of youth in the West have voted by mail, compared with 20% everywhere else, likely because several Western states like Oregon and Washington, and some populous counties in California, use mail-in voting as the default method of casting ballots.In.