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Arizona State University's State Press reported that in 2016, almost half of Arizona’s population did not vote in the presidential election and less than three percent of ASU’s student body voted last spring in the USG elections.

Because elections give people the power to control many aspects of their daily lives, ASU public policy experts said low voter participation is creating a crisis situation for democracy.

Some understand that the North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be modernized, and on Monday, President Trump announced a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico. However, there are not many details on this sixteen-year U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement and Mexico’s President asking for the participation of Canada.

CNN Politics reported that Latino voters could help decide several competitive races in Arizona this election cycle and Republicans and Democrats are making their best pitches to win the vital constituency.

In a column in the Arizona Daily Star, commissioner Mark Kimble, member of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and registered independent voter, says there is an increasing number of voters choosing neither the Democratic nor Republican party, but instead defining themselves as “party not designated.”

In Arizona, based on current data, there are 1.2 million of us who are Independents, Kimble says, compared with 1.3 million Republicans and 1.1 million Democrats, yet in the 2016 Primary Election, fewer than 1 in 10 Arizona Independents voted.