Lack of excitement and knowledge about candidates score much higher than difficulty registering or getting to the polls in a sweeping new study
Democratic campaign committees and activist groups have been spending millions of dollars to fight against a range of legal obstacles on voting, believing that making voter registration easier and keeping polls open longer would inspire more Americans to turn out.
Only 3 percent of nonvoters said a more convenient process to register would motivate them to vote in more elections. The election has since led Abrams to launch Fair Fight, an organization dedicated to fighting voter suppression. The organization works in 20 states training staffers to combat voter suppression and to register voters and raise awareness of election reforms.
“Asking people to draw the causal link between a legal regime and their behavior, I think, is difficult, and I don’t know if it’s the most reliable way to figure out how laws affect human behavior,” said Dale Ho, director of the ACLU voting rights project.
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