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    With Many Campuses Closed, Will College Students Turn Out To Vote?

    People ages 18 to 29 are turning out in record-breaking numbers for early voting. But will pandemic-related disruptions to campus life affect student voter turnout on Election Day?
    by Elissa Nadworny Oct 30, 2020 3 minutes
    Students chat on a lawn this fall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It's unclear how disruptions to campus life during the pandemic might affect student voter turnout on Election Day.

    Despite a legacy of low turnout, college students — and young people in general — could be a decisive voting bloc in this election. Already, nearly 5 million Americans, ages 18 to 29, have cast early votes, a far higher number than at this point in 2016.

    But will this fall's pandemic campus experience upend optimistic projections for a college student turnout?

    "This election year is just incredibly important," says Annie Rosenow, a junior political science

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