Election Barriers, Voter Turnout, and Dysfunctional Democracy @ChicagoIdeasWeek
Election Barriers, Voter Turnout, and Dysfunctional Democracy  @ChicagoIdeasWeek
Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Seth Flaxman, the founder of Democracy Works (the organization behind the powerful voter information / registration platform, TurboVote), addresses the dysfunctional and confounding processes that dissuade people from voting.

Around 40 percent of people who can vote in the United States choose not to, and often times, they cite a litany of bewildering procedural issues that make voting more trouble than it's worth.
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