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Maggie Koerth

Americans’ environmental voting trends aren’t new this election cycle, either. The same dynamic I wrote about earlier was kind of happening in 2016. There’s just A LOT that is important to people and environment ends up getting pushed down the list. One interesting thing: There’s an activist group dedicated to finding people with environmentalist beliefs who don’t vote and getting them out to the polls. They claim that more than 15 million environmentalists didn’t vote at all in the 2014 midterms.

Meena Ganesan

If you’re like us, maybe you need a few more tabs open today to calm — or elevate — your anxieties. Our friends at ABC News are also live blogging today. Give them a read.

Oliver Roeder

And back to our anecdotal voting-lines project! Lines are so long at University of Illinois that voters are backed all the way up into this M.C. Escher drawing.


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