"We're not saying that all young people are lazy," says Caro Loutfi.&nbsp;"But we are saying that a lot of young people are choosing not to engage with the&nbsp;political&nbsp;process."

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​27-year-old Loutfi, the executive director of the non-partisan charity Apathy is Boring,&nbsp;is challenging the stereotype that millennials are apathetic.

  By choosing not to vote, what you're really&nbsp;doing is letting someone else speak for you.  

- Caro Loutfi, Executive Director of Apathy is Boring

Her mission: to get young Canadians more involved in everything from volunteering to voting.

Loutfi's work contributed to a&nbsp;20 per cent increase in millennial voter turn-out in the 2015 federal election. Now&nbsp;she's turned her attention to engagement beyond the election cycle,&nbsp;sharing&nbsp;stories of young peoples' civic action in new ways — from outreach on Twitter&nbsp;to a large-scale, five-city outdoor photo projection project.

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Get-out-the-vote initiatives are as old as democracy itself, but there is a dawning awareness that badgering people into casting a ballot is the wrong way to go about it.

During the current federal election campaign, the civic-engagement group Apathy Is Boring has been publicizing the fact that five million millennials (5MMV) are eligible to vote, and has been encouraging young people to sign a chalkboard as a way of promising to cast a ballot on Oct. 19.

Apathy Is Boring campaign

During the current federal election campaign, the civic-engagement group Apathy Is Boring has been publicizing the fact that five million millennials (5MMV) are eligible to vote and has been encouraging young people to sign a chalkboard as a symbolic pledge to cast a ballot on Oct. 19.

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Caro Loutfi is making democracy cool for her millennial cohort.

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