It All Comes Down to the Voters

If no one is asking you to participate, than you feel that the political system isn’t working for you.

Arturo Vargas Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appoint...

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It All Comes Down to the Voters 53m 2s

Celinda on voter turnout in modern elections: "We can't get out the vote with a van anymore." 4m 29s

Arturo Vargas on Latino voter motivations: "They want to be personally engaged." 3m 29s

Voters need more carrot and less stick to drive them to the polls. 3m 56s

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It All Comes Down to the Voters

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What factors motivate people to make it to the polls in any given year, and what keeps them away? One thing we learned from 2016 is that predicting not only how people will vote, but if they will vote, is extremely complicated. How much impact do positive or negative ads on TV or social media have on voting rates? How and where will gerrymandering, or redistricting, be most consequential? How much impact do things like voter suppression, inaccurate voter rolls, and voter fraud really have on the integrity of our elections?