Young voters urged to enrol as election deadline approaches

Electoral commission expects last-minute flurry of enrolments before Thursday’s cut off date

Young voter enrolments appear not to have risen further since the highs of the 2017 same sex marriage postal survey, with the 2019 election on track to have a similar percentage of young voters as the 2016 election.

Despite predictions that the survey’s enrolment drive would have created a record number of young voters at this federal election, the number and percentage of young voters seems likely to remain relatively unchanged.

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