In any given election, between 35 and 60 percent of eligible voters don’t cast a ballot, according to the MIT Election Data & Science Lab. The decision to carve out the time to vote requires a sense of motivation that’s sometimes hard to build up every two or four years, whether you don’t feel excited about the candidates, don’t believe in the importance of voting itself or just don’t think anything can change because of a single vote.
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