Month: October 2018

EditorialOpinion

Inform yourself before you cast your ballot

Simply registering to vote isn’t enough. According to the official report of the 2014 Nebraska General Elections compiled by Nebraska Secretary of State John A. Gale, only 552,115 of the 1,158,840 registered voters in the state of Nebraska submitted ballots in the last midterm election. In Dawes County, only 2,786 of 5,983 registered voted. That is less than half of the already registered voters. 

So why is it that 20-somethings would rather participate in Twitter polls than cast a ballot for government officials?

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