translation.en: Voter turnout around the world peaked in the late '80s, and it has been declining at a pace that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal.
translation.zh: 全世界的选民投票率 在上世纪80年代达到峰值， 然后以一个前所未有的速度在下降， 如果说这些数字在国家层面已经很坏了， 那么在城市层面 则更惨淡了。