[unstuckdev]

Solving the problem "low turnout" requires getting people to vote. When people who don't vote are turned out, they tend to vote D. Strengthening the democratic process and increasing turnout for Democrats are currently the same thing.

[specialist]

Short of compulsory voting, there just a handful of ways to boost turnout (participation). In order:

Universal, automative voter registration. Like very other mature democracy. Vox's "Why America needs automatic voter registration" segment is a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5Qs0fc_I0

Competitive races. Because then people feel their vote matters. This means fair redistricting, probably based on measure of wasted votes.

Threatening people's right to vote sometimes motivates participation. I don't recommend such exteme measures.

Early evidence is that free postage on mail ballots boost turnout ~4.5%. We'll see.

Mail balloting weakened the culture of voting. Seeing your neighbors and family vote increases the peer pressure. Like the top OC, there have been a few weak efforts to use social media as a substitute.

Put motivating cultural wedge issues on the ballot. Homophobia, corporate welfare, war on drugs for the right. Anything pro human or fact based for the left.

[tomjen3]

Dane here, we consistently get 85+ with no compulsory voting.

Yes we have universal registration, but we also have a system where more than one party can win, which I think is much more important. People can be motivated to overcome challenges if they have a good reason.