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By Jordan Gaines<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the final leg of the race to the White House all hands are on deck to get millennials to the polls. Young adults, in fact, \u00a0have been blamed<\/span><\/a> for the race being such a close call.<\/span><\/p>\n

This generation is being haunted by a traditionally low voter turnout with only 45 percent of 18 to 29 year olds voting in the 2012 election, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even in the 2008 presidential election, when millennials were credited for helping get Obama in the Oval Office, only 50 percent of those eligible to vote did so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, with the youngest members of the generation being of voting age and the number of eligible millennial voters being almost equal to that of baby boomers, eyes are on the young voters who were<\/span> drawn<\/span><\/a> to the primary race for Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to show up to the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite<\/span> social media efforts<\/span><\/a>, pithy<\/span> messages<\/span><\/a> from comedian Aziz Ansari, and even social media<\/span> messages<\/span><\/a> from millennials themselves encouraging their generation to vote, young voters \u00a0still aren\u2019t expected to cast many ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laziness won\u2019t keep them from the polls, but a refusal to settle will.<\/span><\/p>\n

For 24-year-old Chicago resident Charielle Awan, visiting other countries made her realize how little this election and its candidates affirm her humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe treatment that I got outside of America as a black American was really an eye-opener for me to how flawed this country is,\u201d Awan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Issues of civil and human rights are priorities for young voters, especially young African-American voters, who had the highest percentage of voter turnout of all young voters in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Cahn, co-author of \u00a0\u201cWhen Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America\u201d told U.S. News & World Report, \u201cmillennials are this generation that is rejecting partisanship on both sides of the aisle and is uniting at the political center.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Awan added: \u201cI don\u2019t think Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, especially not Donald Trump, are good candidates to run this country right now.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

With the creation of movements such as Black Lives Matter, many black millennials, for example, \u00a0no longer wish to work with what they have.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the whole \u201cblack people died so you can vote\u201d argument isn\u2019t working with many black young adults: A person posting as Bee Kapri on Facebook wrote: Black people fought so you had an OPTION to vote. They were murdered because this is America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo at top: Young voter uses #IGuessImWithHer to show reluctant solidarity with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Jordan Gaines\/MEDILL)<\/em><\/div>\n

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