Disengagement is dangerous, and low voter turnout is just one challenge we’re facing. Turnout alone is not enough if maps are unfair across the U.S. Fair maps are not enough if people do not vote.
Read more from Eugene Springfield NAACP’s Demond Hawkins in a Eugene Weekly viewpoint.
Last week, I read Eve Weston’s “The People Have Spoken,” (EW May 21) summarizing the May primary elections in Lane County. A phrase embedded in the opening paragraph stayed with me: “the usual low…
