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...several other groups are fed up with the lack of governmental attention to the issues concerning them, Yard says. As proof that the current two-party system is "leaving too many citizens out," members of these special interest groups point to the consistently low voter turnout in this country--most often these non-voters are the nation's underprivelged...
After a violent election campaign left three presidential candidates dead, Colombians gingerly went to the polls last week in the lowest turnout ever. As expected, they elected Cesar Gaviria Trujillo of the ruling Liberal Party as their new leader, with a surprisingly large 47% of the vote...
With a 94% turnout and 85% of the vote in elections last week, President-elect Ion Iliescu of Romania was almost in the same league as his predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist tyrant who posted similar landslides in pro forma balloting. But this was a free election, complete with opposition candidates and Western observers. That must have made Iliescu's victory all the sweeter, despite opposition allegations of ballot-box fraud, voter intimidation and media monopolization by his incumbent National Salvation Front...
Which is why when almost every pundit wrings his hands in despair at low voter turnout -- some even feel obliged to propose creative schemes to induce people to vote -- I am left totally unmoved. Low voter turnout means that people see politics as quite marginal to their lives, as neither salvation nor ruin. That is healthy. Low voter turnout is a leading indicator of contentment. For a country founded on the notion that that government is best that governs least, it seems entirely proper that Americans should in large numbers register a preference against politics by staying home on Election...
Nearly two-thirds of the student body participated in the vote--an "unprecedented" turnout for such a resolution, according to organizers. They said it was indicative of the growing discontent nationwide with the Court's recent turn to the right...