Voting in today's American society is not amongst the top priorities for young people. According to Mark Sommer, author of "Shunning The Polls/ Young Voters" implies that young people either don't have enough time for politics or they simply are not educated enough about politics that they really can't grasp a strong position enough to make them want to vote to make a difference. Sommer explains how some of America's youth has taken a stand …showed first 75 words of 444 total…

…showed last 75 words of 444 total…active role in elections. <Tab/>Politics remains a low precedence amongst young people and unless politicians can relate more directly to them the youth will continue to alienate voting. The increasing efforts from politicians to increase the interest of voting to young people has been paying off and they feel if they can get them to vote once or twice they will continue to vote and become more active in politics.