Young adults and Latinos shoulder most of the blame for Utah’s second-worst-in-the-nation voting turnout last year, according to U.S. census data released on Wednesday. The agency’s Current Population Survey asked people last year if they voted, and then broke down information according to age, sex and race.
Only 11.8 percent — just one of every eight — of those between the ages of 18 and 24 voted, for example, the worst of any subgroup measured in the state. Results showed that generally the older the person, the more likely they were to vote. Estimates showed that 30.3 percent of those ages 25-44 voted; 52.6 percent of those ages 45-64 did; 62.7 percent of those ages 65-74 did; and 56.9 percent of those older than age 75 did.
The census also reported that only 18.9 percent — or just one of every five — of adult Latino citizens voted. In comparison, it said 40.5 percent of whites did. Survey samples for other races were too small to be considered reliable. Salt Lake Tribune
