Not only did they come to understand the important role citizens need to play in selecting government officials, those who were eligible, actually took
advantage of early voting to make their voices heard.
It's a special election, though, and very few people had taken
advantage of early voting as of this weekend, meaning that a candidate able to pull a core group of supporters to the polls has chance.
Not exact matches
Voters began casting absentee ballots Tuesday to take
advantage of a disputed
early voting law in the crucial swing state
of Ohio.
STV would have the
advantage of retaining a stronger independence
of locally elected MPs (due to preferential
voting and the fact that party member can in theory compete against each other), but be a more dramatic move away from single - member representation, incur geographical difficulties mentioned
earlier, and have a far less transparent counting process which is far less straightforward to understand.