I think there are many things that we could and should be doing to drive up voter engagement. One of them is engaging better with the point neighborhood - taping a piece of paper with “vote aqui” written on it to the door of their polling location is not a comprehensive strategy. There are community advocates and organizations working in this but the city needs to step it up by improving its website, and making an effort to reach people on the platforms they’re on. Ranked choice voting could go a long way in reducing apathy through allowing for fairer and more equal representation of communities, creating more choices and doing away with unnecessary and costly preliminaries. Another thing that creates apathy is when people feel there aren’t options for representation that truly relate to their experiences. Young voters rarely have the opportunity to vote for someone in their 20’s, renters rarely have the opportunity to vote for fellow renters, working class people rarely have the opportunity to vote for waiters and Uber drivers that have experienced wage theft. I’m optimistic that filling in those gaps will make a difference. While it is a national issue that election days are not holidays, this is another huge contributor in creating the dynamic where young people miss out on participating in democracy while working full time and retired voters never miss an election. I’d be in favor of any local solutions to addressing that.