There is a shift away from the two-party system growing among American voters – a shift that is especially tangible among young voters. Feeling that no party completely represents them, they reject the status quo of identifying with political ideologies and instead focus on the issues that are important to them. As a result, young voters are deciding not to join a political party, and instead declare themselves independents.

Watch Independent Voting President Jacqueline Salit and New Jersey Independent Voters’s Javier Luque give their takes on this wave of change in the video below from Voice of America and read the accompanying article here.

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