Even in the best cases (i.e. where there isn't intentional voter suppression and gerrymandering), this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. In my Seattle, for

Even in the best cases (i.e. where there isn't intentional voter suppression and gerrymandering), this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. In my Seattle, for instance, city candidates will usually spend most of their canvassing efforts on (wealthier, older) homeowners rather than (pooorer, younger) renters. They do this because they know that homeowners will vote at much higher rates than renters. Yet this is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy: renters are also less likely to vote because none of the candidates have bothered reaching out to them. So it's generally hard - for good reason - to persuade young people that any of the political candidates on the slate care about them. This has only barely begun to change recently.