The United States now finds itself one week after an anxiety-producing, polarizing election.   Approximately 239 million people in the USA were eligible to vote but approximately 160 million people (from what we know right now) actually voted.   That’s 66.9% of the voters in the country.   That’s the highest percentage of voter turnout since the year 1900.  

 

What happened to the other 33.1%?

 

Our focus is not simply the United States.   Myanmar had an election this week too! 

 

But the question of all of you throughout the globe is:

 

Why doesn’t everyone vote?  What would get them to care enough to vote and/or participate in elections?  And what would get them to run for office and engage actively in politics?

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To read what students globally (divided into eight groups) had to say in response to these questions, please use the button below.

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