Why Won’t Angelenos Vote?

So few Angelenos voted this year that Eric Garcetti was elected mayor with just 222,300 votes—the same number it took to get elected mayor in the 1930s, when L.A. was half its present size. UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Tracy Zeluff of GroundWorks Campaigns, and Loyola Ma rymount University political scientist Fernando Guerra talked about why Angelenos are so reluctant to go to the polls, whether it matters, and what might change things.