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.
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。