Yvette O. Efevbera is a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Megan H. Red Shirt-Shaw is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Natalie Unterstell is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
2020 was a year of record-breaking voter turnout. Two-thirds of registered voters in the U.S. cast ballots for president â the highest percentage in 120 years. And over the summer, 43,531 Harvard alumni voted in Harvard Universityâs Board of Overseers election â the highest total in recent memory â after robust get-out-the-vote efforts by the grassroots Harvard Forward campaign. But even in the best of years, turnout in Harvardâs elections is pitifully low: this modern-day ârecordâ represented roughly 15 percent turnout.