This obscene election demands that we enact election reforms to protect our democracy.

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4. Which raises another issue

And that issue is the disturbingly small percentage of people who vote, even in a presidential election. The last figures, at least 4 years old, show 169 million registered voters out of 201 million eligible voters. In this election, roughly 117 million votes were cast. That means that 69% of registered voters bothered to vote, which is only 58% of the eligible voters. This is a national disgrace for a leading world democracy. One of the problems is of course all the barriers to voting, including having to work on election day. Why doesn't this country declare that election day is national holiday? For sure that would enable far more people to vote. But a lot of people don't vote because they just don't believe in the system, they don't believe that voting makes any difference, and that needs attitude needs to be corrected by deed as well as words.