Svetlana, a 41-year-old immigrant from Russia, has been living here for 15 years. She commented how she and her husband do not tend to participate in local elections:
My husband and I are registered to vote, and we do vote but mostly in major elections. We don’t really vote for small things like councilmen and stuff like that. We don’t really do anything else. We’re not that politically active. We just vote… It’s not that we don’t care about local politics. We just feel like we’re not that informed… like we’re not informed enough to vote for these smaller elections and make a good decision. So, we just kind of stay out of it.”
