To the Editor:
Re “Some States Targeting Voter Registration Drives With Restrictions” (news article, July 27):
As the founder and C.E.O. of The Civics Center, a national, nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to making voter registration part of every high school in America, I appreciated your bringing light to these issues.
Making it harder to host registration drives disproportionately harms younger Americans. Our data show that less than one-third of 18-year-olds are currently registered to vote in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona and New Hampshire.
If states keep adding hurdles to registering to vote, we’ll be stuck in a vicious cycle of youth alienation that can have devastating effects on our society.