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The relationship of age to voting turnout over a 20-year period was analyzed using data from 6 presidential election surveys conducted by the Survey Research Center. A multivariate analysis was employed in which period & cohort, as well as 6 causal covariates (sex, occupation, region, race, SC, education, & religion) were entered into a regression equation predicting self-reported voting in the election. The linear dependency among age, period, & cohort was avoided by constraining some of the category effects to be equal. The observed curvilinear pattern of voting turnout to age (low turnout among the youngest & oldest voters, highest turnout among the middle-aged) persisted after the other effects were held constant. But an observed curvilinear pattern for birth cohorts (low turnout among those born before 1888 & after 1928) disappeared when the other variables were controlled. Persons born before the turn of the century were shown to have high levels of voting, possibly reflecting persistent differences in the socialization of voting obligations between the 19th & 20th centuries. 3 Tables. AA.