Chile underwent a major change in 2012 — mandatory voting became voluntary. Since then, voter participation in elections has declined. Host Marco Werman talks to political science professor Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser in Santiago, Chile, about what prompted the change and the lessons the country has learned since.
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