Well isn’t it the responsibility of the people to be invested in voting?
When people complain about issues with our representation at any level of the US government, those issues are just symptoms of the root cause that the populace is not engaged in voting.
According to Ballotpedia, non presidential election years have a 20-30% lower turnout than presidential election years which only see about 60% turnout.
National elections are getting more and more gerrymandered, however, with right wing states looking to add more and more barriers to voting that specifically leave out marginalized communities. It is hard to get engaged when your vote has literal lines drawn around so it matters less. Add that to the fact that in the US, election day is not a national holiday, and voting is not required and you get working class and poor folks that literally cannot afford to vote is some areas. The rise of mail in voting is a great thing, but even that is being challenged.
Well isn’t it the responsibility of the people to be invested in voting?
When people complain about issues with our representation at any level of the US government, those issues are just symptoms of the root cause that the populace is not engaged in voting.
According to Ballotpedia, non presidential election years have a 20-30% lower turnout than presidential election years which only see about 60% turnout.
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_elections If people are engaged and vote out incumbents, we get a better court.
Yes and no. Local elections absofuckinglutely.
National elections are getting more and more gerrymandered, however, with right wing states looking to add more and more barriers to voting that specifically leave out marginalized communities. It is hard to get engaged when your vote has literal lines drawn around so it matters less. Add that to the fact that in the US, election day is not a national holiday, and voting is not required and you get working class and poor folks that literally cannot afford to vote is some areas. The rise of mail in voting is a great thing, but even that is being challenged.