Steven Brams and Melissa Schwartzberg on Why and How We Vote

Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWe regard voting as a sacred right, and disenfranchisement as a great injustice. But U.S. voter turnout is mediocre by international standards; many seem to think that voting isn't worth the time. This raises several questions. Why vote? How can we improve the voting system? What does it even mean to improve a voting system? In two short talks, Steven Brams (a mathematician and philosopher at New York University) and Melissa Schwartz