How Can We Increase Voter Turn-out?

How Can We Increase Voter Turn-out?

How Can We Increase Voter Turn-Out?  More than 91 million eligible Americans did not cast their vote during the 2016 elections. The situation was worse two years earlier when more than 143 million eligible Americans failed to show up and cast their votes. This is a...

Motivating Voter Turnout by Invoking the Self

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science suggests that we can dramatically boost turnout simply by reminding people to “be a voter” rather than “to vote.” When we ask people to “be a voter” and not just “to vote,” we lead them to think about...