Based on her recent research, Dr. Caroline Tolbert will analyze puzzling trends in voter participation and review ways that the machinery of voting, i.e., its organization, could be modernized to help increase voter participation. Dr. Tolbert is Distinguished Research Fellow, and Politics and Policy Research Program Professor at the University of Iowa Public Policy Center.

This educational program is presented by the League of Women Voters of Johnson County Education Committee, the Iowa City Public Library, and the Iowa City Press-Citizen.