Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore
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The Problem With Low Participation in Elections
In America so few people show up to vote you saw what happened in Chicago recently the mayoral election I think we had what 30 percent voter turnout it's just it's tragic and you could say that that proves that her her system her ideas won't work here because people don't care enough. But of course the counter could be people feel like they don't actually have a voice and what they do doesn't matter, he says. So if people start to realize they have a voice in at least some aspects of this then maybe they'll care more about about the rest of itYeah I completely agree I think that when you have low participation the only one participating for sure are the people with a very
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