The Global Participation Crisis

The Missing Voter

The vote that never happens is still a vote. It elects governments by absence. Across democracies, the missing voter wears a different face in every country: the first-time voter with no address on file, the rural citizen beyond broadband reach, the diaspora community no campaign ever mapped. Low turnout is not apathy; it is a targeting failure, and targeting failures can be engineered out.

IPE27 gathers the strategists, technologists, party officials, and researchers building the tools, models, and ground games that find the missing voter before election day, not after. Two days. One theme: The Global Participation Crisis: Re-Engineering Campaign Tools to Reclaim the Missing Voter.