Kevin Allison is a Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin is also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.
Democracy dies in darkness, or maybe it just withers from neglect: in the 2016 US presidential election, just 55.7 percent of the voting age population cast ballots. Twenty five other industrialized countries showed higher turnout than that in their last election cycle, according to a new study by Pew. Here’s how they stack up: