This week’s reading in our course text includes a section about voter participation. After reading this section of the text, please read the attached recently-published article about election turnout in Dallas and ideas policymakers there have to improve participation in their jurisdiction: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2018/02/10/amid-abysmal-voter-turnout-dallas-move-elections-november (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Amid abysmal voter turnout, should Dallas move its elections to November?
www.dallasnews.com
North Dallas resident Alex Culin, 37, has lived in Dallas for seven years, but has never had local politics on his radar screen.He didn’t vote in…
Do you see any parallels between the turnout/participation-related issues identified in this article, which are specific to the City of Dallas, and turnout/participation along the Wasatch Front (or in the area where you live)?What do you make of the proposals in this article to increase turnout/participation? Could these ideas work in areas other than Dallas?
