Trip in the US great eye-opener :: Mmegi Online

I think it is important to share the experience that I gained during my visit to the United States of America (US) recently as it was meant to help us look into strategies which the American democratic system uses to increase citizen participation in the electoral process. We were in America for 13 days as from October 18-30.

I was part of the delegation which was nominated through a Botswana government single exchange programme with the US. The Programme is called the US State Leadership Programme which focuses on the federal, state and local election guidelines and regulations, voter registration and get out the vote initiatives, voter education and party politics.

We visited three States (Washington DC., Philadelphia, and North Carolina) and we learnt a lot on various aspects of Democracy which made me realise more that Botswana still has a lot of work to do to improve its democracy and call itself a shining example of democracy.

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