Students have the ability to flip the script in the 2020 election. Voter turnout rates among Wake students have been below 50% over the past four elections, and according to the campus report from the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, 76.1% of Wake Forest students registered to vote, but only 43.3% of registered students actually cast a ballot in 2012. And in 2016, the voter registration rate decreased to 73.2%, and only 41.1% of registered Wake Forest voters cast ballots.Click the link in our bio to read more about voter registration efforts on campus and youth voter turnout statistics from Melissa Cooney (’21).Graphic by Emily Beauchamp/Old Gold & Black.