With election day just a week away, candidates are ignoring millions of young Americans who could still cast a decisive ballot but have not yet registered to vote.

By contrast, my mailbox has been full of political flyers: the various campaigns gleaned my name from the voter file, recognized that I am a regular voter who hadn’t cast a ballot yet, and assessed through their targeted analysis that it’s worth spending on printing and postage to get their message to me.

Honestly, they are wasting their money on me – I have voted now and would have done so anyway, with or without their glossy mailers. What they should be doing is targeting people who are probably way more persuadable than I am, yet are routinely ignored: the millions of Americans who will be old enough to vote for the first time this November.

In California alone, for example, there are nearly 300,000 eligible 18-year-olds who can legally show up through election day and cast a provisional ballot. Their votes would count the same as........

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