That pretty well sums it up! The US elections are a good example because of the amount of data available, but the pattern of low turnout repeats itself in many other circumstances. People tend to vote more when they are angry about something, but creating a crisis just to get people out to vote would be too much like trolling. Any reasonable expansion of the voter base is unlikely to accomplish much beyond correcting a few inequities, The problem has less to do with those who can't vote, and more with those who won't.
Ec On 03/21/11 7:21 AM, brock.wel...@gmail.com wrote: > It's a chicken and egg thing. The elections arent important so they dont > know about the candidates and they dont know about the candidates because > the elections not important. > -Brock > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: >> On 21 March 2011 09:49, Ray Saintonge<sainto...@telus.net> wrote: >>> Even in US elections the turnout is much lower for the mid-terms. It's >>> relatively easy to decide on a presidential candidate, but the degree of >>> being informed drops significantly for offices further down the >>> political food chain. >> I would have thought turnout was lower because people think they >> aren't as important as the presidential elections, rather than because >> they don't know which way to vote. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
