Letter to editor discussing about the pople not exercising their vote
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Question: Where would the US feature on a list of the top 25 developed countries with the highest voter turnout in the world? Answer: Nowhere. The US is #27, with 53.6% of the eligible population voting in the 2012 presidential election. Compare that with the no. 1 country, Belgium, where 87.2% of voting-age citizens marked their ballots in 2014.
Low voter turnout in the US is nothing new, of course; it’s a problem almost as old as American democracy itself. Reasons include the inconvenience of Election Day being a Tuesday, a confusing registration process, disenfranchisement of some voter groups, lack of trust in politicians and political institutions, not to mention a decline in civics education. So in 2000, graphic design organization AIGA launched its Get Out the Vote project to enlist its members to create original posters to encourage voting. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Go vote,’” said renowned graphic designer Milton Glaser (TED Talk: Using design to make ideas new) on the AIGA design blog this year. “You have to justify that.”
Here are 14 posters from the 2016 GOTV gallery that showcase a variety of inventive approaches aimed at galvanizing Americans to go to the polls on November 8