Turnout in Boston’s local elections is abysmal – only 16.5% of the voting-age population cast a ballot in the city’s 2019 city council contest. To make matters worse, these voters were significantly whiter and wealthier than Boston as a whole. The problem is fairly straightforward: Boston, like many other American cities, holds its local elections in odd-numbered years, or “off-cycle.”

Join us on April 27th, panelists Sarah Anzia, a political science professor at UC Berkeley, and Jonathan Collins, an education and political science professor at Brown University will discuss how we solve this problem. (Hint, it's simple: hold Boston’s local races on the same day as national elections.) 

Watch full recording of the event here