Sentences with phrase «not voter apathy»

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I think unfortunately apathy is the more common thing that you see in a year like this, voters that are just frustrated and angry or frustrated and angry, but angry in a way that doesn't translate into action.

The disadvantage of using this system (two rounds) is the fatigue (apathy) that is going to suffer the voter if the election is not playing something that he / she is not interested or the voter is sure that the other candidate is going to win.

He goes on to say the Apathy Party is winning elections; millions no longer vote and appear to have no trust in the political parties (that includes me, a former Tory voter) and it is those voters that Cameron should be attracting and not a few piffling votes from the Lib / Dims.

Unfortunately, the voter apathy evident in the Kingston City School District isn't unique.

Reports from other parts of the state also show general apathy as voters did not turn out to vote, while in some cases few voters were seen on the queue.

He further warned that if necessary actions are not taken to address the issues, it will be difficult to eradicate voter - apathy and disenfranchisement, and even more difficult to sustain our democracy.

Nick Sparrow's response to the 2001 survey is worth quoting at length «According to this research voter apathy is the least important reason for not voting; only 10 % of the Electoral Commission sample of non-voters replied that the reason they hadn't voted was because they were «not interested».

«Evidently, there seems to be low voter turnout; I do not know the cause of the apathy.

It was a similar trend in some of the voting centres in the state except the hometown of some of the top candidates, where voter apathy was not recorded.

However, despite the Board of Election's history of mismanagement and incompetency, voter access to the poll is not the leading cause of voter apathy.

In short voter apathy should have come top of the list by a country mile, not bottom.»

Twenty - seven percent of New York voters will not go to the polls today and it has nothing to do with voter apathy.

Commercials like yours do not help this cause and actually exacerbate voter apathy.

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.1 Not surprisingly, public trust in government is at only 18 percent2 and voter participation has reached its lowest point since 1996.3 Without an understanding of the structure of government; rights and responsibilities; and methods of public engagement, civic literacy and voter apathy will continue to plague American democracy.

I would agree with you if 28 years of evidence didn't show that voter apathy has grown dramatically.

Correlation is not causation, and the hypothesis that voter apathy is the only explanation is a very generous assumption.