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What the council currently lacks most in its dealings with the administration is the political capital that comes with support from the student body. Turnout levels on elections persist at abysmally low levels. By delivering change that directly affects the lives of students and drawing attention to those changes, Cohen can bring the council the legitimacy it sorely needs...
...said that absentee ballots will not be available either, because all voting will be electronic, but voting boxes ,will be open at all three meals to allow for maximum turnout...
Nancy Killefer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, flew up from Washington to see how the Manhattan taxpayers were faring and was relieved by the low turnout and camp-registration atmosphere. "When I get something in the mail from the IRS, I just pay it," she confesses. "I don't have time. But if I knew I could call in and not be put on hold forever, I'd call...
Simplify the recall process. Students ought to be able to fire delinquent council representatives more easily. Currently, impeachment is nearly impossible. One-third of a district must petition if it is dissatisfied with its representative. After that, turnout in the new election must exceed one-half of the district, and two-thirds of voters must wish to terminate that member's term. This is ridiculous. Make recall possible by decreasing the initial petition fraction and by decreasing the election turnout number to the percentage of the House which voted in the initial election...
Malenfant noted that, despite low overall voter turnout, "turnout in the Maynard school district was high because there's been controversy about relocating the Cambridgeport school into the Maynard School...