Why Americans Don’t Vote (and What to Do About It) | NYT Opinion

If Didn’t Vote had been a candidate in the 2016 election, it would have won by a landslide.

The United States ranks 26th out of the 32 developed countries in the world in terms of voter turnout. In the video above, we explain some of the reasons and argue that there are simple measures that would increase the number of people who show up at the polls.

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