The class - “Foundations of Journalism,” taught by journalism department chairwoman Brooke Kroeger - polled more than 3,000 undergraduates between Oct. 24 and 26 to assess student attitudes toward voting…and here are the results:
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Their reasons for giving up their vote varied. “At the moment, no candidate who truly represents my political beliefs has a chance of winning a presidential election,” one male junior studying film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts wrote on the survey. “It is very easy to convince myself that my vote is not essential,” wrote a female CAS sophomore. “After all, I’m from New York, which will always be a Blue State.”

Other students wrote that they were disgusted by the thought.

“I would be reversing history - a lot of people fought so that every citizen could be enfranchised,” said a female in her second year at the Stern School of Business.

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