Sentences with phrase «of voter apathy»

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.

The dire consequences of voter apathy is that a minority rules since politicians seek out people who are likely to vote and policies are made by the will of this minority number of voters.

The real cause of voter apathy and suppression is the lack of real choices on the ballot.

More likely low turnout is the result of voter apathy towards the system and nothing else.

Not exact matches

But most polling models assumed the same type of apathy among younger voters that doomed the UK Brexit referendum last year.

Two of the chief reasons were voter apathy and military intimidation.

While some argued that his constant accusations of corruption against the party gave the NPP enough fodder to campaign with, others are of the view that his outright abstinence from the party's campaign activities led to voter apathy among his staunch followers, especially in the Volta Region.

Also this week, we ask a group of first time student voters for their perspective — what's been memorable about their first election, why apathy is so prevalent among young people, and is there room for any optimism about the future?

This is in part due to Democrats having failed to inspire voters on the local level, partially due to an overall culture of apathy among poor voters, which has only been exacerbated further in «winner - take - all» Republican - dominated states.

He explained that, the NDC will win massive votes in its world bank, Volta region in spite of the seeming voter apathy in the region.

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.

Slthough, the election was marred by voter's apathy as Unity Forum of APC and opposition parties boycotted the poll.

But while those actions may actually create politically useful space to the president's left, the other consequence of disillusion is what polls have found to be deepening apathy among Democratic voters.

This birth voter's apathy, civil disobedience to constituted authorities and failure to perform statutory duties as a precursor to the eventual burial of social contract.

The elections were marked by voter apathy, with turnout falling to 59.4 %, the lowest since the Coupon Election of 1918.

The report noted that to make the election possible, voter education is imperative on the part of the political parties and INEC in order to avoid voter apathy and total boycott in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

If the IDC is to forge on, business as usual, in the years to come it will need voters and Democratic heavyweights to return to their state of pre-Trump apathy.

In other words, I'm interested in the elections where the main / only reason one can assume for the low turnout is voter apathy / bad set of choices to vote for / general - low - election - participation culture.

While many leading figures and national executives of the party have by and large cited voter apathy among their supporters in their strongholds especially in the Volta Region for their defeat, others are of the opinion that the party's campaign team failed at their job.

Turnout was low in Kumasi - only 66 % voted which was terrible and so there's now going to be a lot of campaigning against voter apathy to get everyone here to go and cast their ballot.

According to him, voters» apathy to registration has led to the unnecessary postponement of the exercise which he said costs the commission a lot.

Budget bills are passed in the dark of night with little time to scrutinize them, pay to play culture is thriving, and voter apathy is rising.»

During the interactive session, the State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Nobert Obi, and his PDP counterpart, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu called for all inclusive process and voter education to reduce voter apathy.

Marina Hyde contemplates the prospect of a Conservative victory — and the question of whether the blame would be the first past the post electoral system or voter apathy.

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.

The sparsely attended town board meeting was summed up by Romanowski: «If residents want to see changes, the lack of public participation at board meetings and voter apathy displayed during the elections needs to change.»

Questions over voter apathy have left some supporters of Community Board 11 Chairman Jerry Iannece wondering how their candidate could have lost in September's primary election.

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Former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has urged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in various constituencies to vote out Members of Parliament who have become a liability to their communities or risk voter apathy during the national elections.

He added, «The problem of rigging is due to voter apathy — if 74 million people on Nigeria's voters register come out to vote, do you think anybody can rig?

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.

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.

a.m. when the accreditation and voting process commenced in some parts of the state, there were only few voters at some polling units, fuelling fears of insecurity and voters» apathy.

The decision to remove those politicians and their operatives working against our vital public interests, must first come from voters awakened out of their apathy toward the political affairs and governance of their treasury, and empower candidates who possess the will to do what is good and right.

Unions often take advantage of off year elections and voter apathy and fatigue.

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.

«We believe the bigger cause of low voter turnout at local elections - more than apathy - is that potential voters feel uninformed» Says Beckett «These scorecards are our attempt to change that».

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

The contract included identifying swing voters for each of the parties and measuring their level of electoral apathy, among other things.

The core challenge was to identify the floating / swing voters for each of the parties and to measure their levels of electoral apathy, a result of the poor and unchanging condition of the state after 15 years of incumbent rule.»