Behind TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year Reader’s Poll: The Moments That Mattered

As voting gets underway for the 2016 TIME Person of the Year reader's poll, we took a look back at the moments from 2016 when this year's poll contenders were most talked about. Though TIME's editors make the ultimate decision as to who is the Person of the Year—the person who most influenced the news, for good or ill—the reader's poll is a valuable window into what the world thinks about that question.