For as long as I can remember, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lamented that Americans do not show up to the polls in larger numbers on Election Day. Sometimes they chalk it up to apathy, sometimes to obstacles, real or imagined, that keep voters from the polls. But beyond decrying our embarrassingly low voter turnout—53.6% in 2012, as cited in a recent Pew Research Center report—neither party has really done much to...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 21, 2016 22:41 UTC