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    Gen Z's political power: new data gives insight into America's youngest voters

    Generation Z, which turned out in large numbers along with millennials last election, is still new to politics. A report exclusively obtained by NPR adds more context to the youngest voting block.
    by Elena Moore Feb 06, 2023 6 minutes
    A young man fills out an application to cast his ballot at the Ann Arbor clerk's satellite office on the University of Michigan campus.

    For 19-year-old Jenna Ruiz, voting for the first time was a thrill.

    "My group of friends and I were really excited," Ruiz said, a sophomore at Miami Dade College who serves as student government president.

    Ruiz and her friends are just a few of the millions of young Americans newly eligible to vote in the 2022 midterms.

    Still, that excitement didn't smooth over some of the uncertainty Ruiz experienced when it came time to actually cast her ballot.

    "I felt, I'm not going to lie, a little bit lost on some of the things that were on the ballot," Ruiz told NPR. She said she was mostly motivated to vote because she disagreed with the conservative social policies of Florida's current Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who ended up winning reelection.

    "I do identify more towards the Democratic Party, but I still felt like I didn't really know everything that was on the ballot," Ruiz added. "I just was

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