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...Rakoff said faculty meetings typically draw about 50 of the 79 faculty members and that Friday's turnout was not uncommon...
...intended to prove what their more theologically minded forebears always believed: namely, that America is on a fast-track express to hell. Their devil is no longer Lucifer, who so terrified the divines of the 17th century--rather, they see perdition looming in the "crisis" of low voter-turnout...
...ever larger numbers over the past three decades," the Kennedy School's Vanishing Voter Project warns balefully, "Americans have been tuning out the campaign and staying home on Election Day." To combat this trend, which has seen turnout fall from an all-time high of 63 percent in 1960 to less than 50 percent in the Clinton-Dole race of '96, the election Puritans offer a laundry-list of reforms--a campaign-finance overhaul, mandatory voting and an improvement in what one watchdog group calls the "quality of the campaign discourse." Otherwise, these storm crows warn, American democracy will wither...
...Turnout was also low at Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters on Garden St., where Democratic voters were offered contested races for only two positions: the Clerk of Courts and Register of Probate...
...When debates occur...voter turnout increases," he says, referring to the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial race, where Ventura debated and where 63 percent voted, compared to 39 percent nationally. "If we want to keep them involved, we need third-party candidates and we need debates...