Happy election day! Did you vote? Maybe you didn't because you've got kids and little

Isabella got that RSV that's been gone around and you were late for work and your boss

wasn't having it and then you had to leave early to take Isabella to the doctor and

when you finally went to sleep you had to catch up on all the work you missed and then

you passed out on the couch and woke up to the results and felt really guilty about letting

your democracy down. But at least you're not alone. Midterm elections are a tough

cell in the United States. Turnout in 2014 was a 70 year low. Something like 36%. We did

better in 2018 with about half of all eligible voters showing up. Coming up on today's

explain we'll ask what this country would look like if voting was mandatory.

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the future works. Today explained and today's election day in the United States so we sent

out a bunch of our producers to find out whether y'all plan on voting. We started on the

Staten Island ferry in New York City. I don't plan to vote. They kind of do their own thing,

I like what we say is really heard or cared for. Definitely I'm planning to vote. My name's

Kirby. We're gonna vote Democratic. I like the rights that they're fighting for, especially

the women's rights. That's an important issue right now. So I've got a three year old daughter

that just affects her. I got sisters, I got a mother that's all affects her. Men don't

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