Voters need to know how to educate themselves on the topics that are discussed by politicians and the news media. If they don't understand what an issue is then how can they decide what their opinion is on it. Since this is one of the excuses people use as to why they don't vote, it needs to be eliminated. High school government classes try to instill this information into young voters, but by age 17 most people have decided whether or not they want to be involved in their community. By firing interests in this area up early during a child's education it may be possible to get more people involved.
Issues are also another way to gain interest in politics from young people.
Voters under the age of 30 years old generally have determined that they will never see the social security benefits that they are paying into. This is just one issue that has become uninteresting to this age group. If local candidates as well as national ones would cover issues dealing with college expenses, new families, beginning jobs and careers, and taxes. These are all issues that have in the past brought young voters to the polling centers. At this time, people don't like discussing politics, seeing politics on TV, or hearing about it on the radio because they feel it is boring and negative, and thus it ruins their day.