Who Cares?
6:01 AM (58 minutes ago)
Dear OZY Tribe,

Drive-thru McDonalds voting. Walmart election centers. Personal delivery of ballots by your local sheriff. The way we vote is changing ...
… Or not. Because, come Election Day in November 2020, up to 100 million people will stay home — not because they forget (how could you, with wall-to-wall coverage?), nor because they’re simply “lazy” or “apathetic.” But perhaps because they’re angry, disappointed, frustrated by lack of choice, or because they believe that not voting is as big a statement as voting itself.
OZY’s mission is to get under the skin of the headlines you see flying around on a daily basis and take our audience deeper into the new and the next. We’re also proudly multipartisan, giving you both sides of the story.
So, in the runup to next year’s U.S. presidential election, we’re focusing on an important question: Who votes, who doesn’t and why? When people’s opinions of President Trump are so fiercely held, the central question of 2020 comes down not to ‘Who do you support,’ but to: Who Cares?
So far, our reporting has uncovered a rural county in New Mexico that hit 100 percent voter turnout thanks in part to the power of shame. We visited Colorado, the heart of America’s voting potential thanks to innovations like drive-thru voting and direct referendums allowing people to vote on issues that hit home. And we’ve identified America’s “Apathy Belt,” which has seen depressed turnout amid party-switching and corruption.