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I suspect one reason we have elections with low turnouts is that potential voters don’t like the choices on the ballot. A candidate may not be everything a voter is looking for in a public official. He or she may express one idea to which the voter agrees and yet think differently from the voter on other issues. This creates a choice for the citizen. Do I support the candidate, taking the good with the bad, or do I not vote?
Too often it seems people take the second option and not vote. This creates a problem in the democratic process. When too many people sit at home during an election the people elected have little public support. Even a 15% turnout for an election means the winning candidate may have less than one in ten people who voted for them. Said another way, ninety percent of the populace either voted for the opponent or didn’t vote at all. Sadly most of these didn’t vote at all. This produces an unusual problem for those in authority. If only one in ten...
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