Young people are on their way to becoming a greater share of the electorate in wake of the Parkland school shooting, according to a new data analysis. The Democratic data firm TargetSmart found that the share of new registrations by people under 30 is up eight percent in Florida and two percent nationally since the Feb. 14 mass shooting. Voters between the ages 18 and 29 made up 26.23 percent of all new voter registrations in Florida in the two-and-a-half months before the shooting. In the two-and-a-half months after the shooting, that rate rose to more than 34 percent. Overall, the total number of registrations among young people in Florida rose 41 percent. The increase came amid efforts by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting to encourage their peers to vote out lawmakers who do not support stricter gun control laws. TargetSmart's director Tom Bonier said he could not scientifically attribute the rise in young adult registrations to the shooting and its
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