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October 6, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.

In every election for the last century, nearly half of eligible Americans haven’t voted.

For many nonvoters, it wasn’t by choice. The biggest problem with election administration in the US hasn’t been voter fraud—it’s the laws that make it unnecessarily difficult to register. The video above explains the complex, inefficient registration rules that have become the biggest obstacle to voting in the US.