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...strategy was to put the question on the ballot not because it would win. It would have mobilized voters, and the turnout would have been better for tenants," Koocher says...
Regardless of who is at fault, the missing ballot question may have consequences for the voter turnout...
...Saturday's turnout was heartening. Haynie estimates that 20 to 25 people showed up over the course of the evening to learn more about the cosmetics and skin care products...
...vote truly becomes one's voice to be heard in the apportionment of representation. Nations that use proportional representation enjoy voter turnout rates high above those in the United States, which is currently mired in an undeniably alarming state of voter apathy. Voters in America are reluctant to vote for a third party because they fear theirs will be a wasted vote, and this may discourage them from voting altogether...
With proportional representation, every vote comes to have true meaning, instilling confidence in the effectiveness of democracy. This characteristic itself would encourage voters to go to the polls. In addition to increasing voter turnout, proportional representation addresses and remedies a number of deficiencies in our supposedly representative democracy...