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ike the US, Iran has recently been in the midst of a political change with recent parliamentary elections. Parliament is similar to the US Congress–the legislative branch of government that helps make the laws for the country. While the democratic process has been working as it should, Iranian officials were a little worried with the turnout of this year’s voting. “The turnout across the country was 42.57 percent,” Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli told a televised news conference on Sunday. “In [the capital] Tehran, it was around 25 percent. Across Iran, over 24 million people voted.” In years past, the turnout was higher for the overall population. In 2016, the turnout was 62 percent of the registered population voting. Four years prior to that in 2012, it was 66 percent. While voter participation fluctuates normally, the issue is that this is the first time that it has fallen below the 50 percent mark. Many of the people who were monitoring the votes say that this low turnout was to be expected. Continued on page 2.