Richard Winger is quoted in this article published by Free Press Publications (FPP), which is based in New Hampshire:
But, this still only looks at a small part of the issue. The Pew Research also found that “Overall voter turnout dropped 3.4 percentage points in 2012 from 2008. Turnout percentages in the Midwest and Northeast were higher than in the South in 2012. Two Midwestern states—Minnesota and Wisconsin—had the highest turnout rate in both 2008 and 2012.” Again, this is only looking at part of the issue. Ballot access remains the elephant in the room. Richard Winger says that even though the Pew study did look at ballot access “some of the states found to have the poorest performance happen to be states with severe ballot access laws, such as Alabama, California, and Oklahoma.”