If we want better local government, especially in Gateway Cities, let’s change the election calendar so more people vote when we elect municipal leaders

If we want better local government, especially in Gateway Cities, let’s change the election calendar so more people vote when we elect municipal leaders

"No other institutional reform we know of—short of making voting compulsory—comes anywhere close to having this kind of impact on turnout,” says the University of Chicago's Center for Effective Government of aligning local and national elections.