Why America Stopped VotingExamines how giving up the vote became a fundamental aspect of modern American life Public involvement in the electoral process has all but disappeared. Not since World War I has even half the electorate cast ballots in an off year election. Even at the presidential level, voting has plummeted dismally. Nonvoting has, over the past century, become ingrained at the heart of American politics. It was not always this way. With the integration of