Study strives to engage and educate voters

The Foothills Focus reported that a new report published this month by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University declared that Arizona is experiencing a voter crisis due to participation steadily declining across the state; especially in the primary elections where only one in three potential voters cast a ballot in the 2016.

The report says that well over 70 percent of the state’s eligible voters did not cast a ballot in the 2016 primary election, which means less than 1 million of Arizona’s 4.7 million potential voters (registered and non-registered) helped select candidates for the general elections.

The study calls for eligible voters in the state to start taking a proactive role in elections by participating in primary and general elections, while calling on the state government to engage and educate more voters, especially millennials.

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