LETTER: Why young people don't want to vote

Sir: Polly Toynbee's commentary on voter apathy among youth (28 April) brings to mind similar criticism of both the young and the not- so-young in the 1968 US presidential election.

Many potential voters claimed that there was no significant difference between Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, so why bother to vote? As usual, I suppose, the country got what it deserved.

MARK RASMUSSEN

London E11