Sentences with phrase «voters apathy»

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

Speaking prior to the unanimous motion passed, Mr Draper said: ««UKIP and its leader Nigel Farage are feeding on voter apathy and are getting a massive platform in the media.»

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

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.

According to her: «With previous elections, Nigerians developed voter apathy due to a distrust of the system.The 2015 elections taught us, however, that as individuals, our votes count.

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.

While increasing voter apathy may be one explanation, another may be that new calls have insufficient knowledge to participate, resulting in a significant lag.

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.

According to the group, the saving grace for Akufo Addo was the fact that the there was an inexplicable voter apathy that worked against the incumbent John Dramani Mahama.

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 ruling NPP has said it is concerned about voter apathy and is calling on its supporters to «vote massively» in the second round.

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.

Clyde Haberman believes Albany — writ large — not voter apathy will be to blame for today's expected low turnout.

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.

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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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».

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.

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

Niall Firth mentions voter apathy harming democracy and reports on a «liquid democracy» app (9 September, p 8).

There's extreme voter apathy in DISD elections in those areas, so teachers make up a significant number of the people that vote.

However, Lash says that the form is long and complicated, and many condo corporations are facing voter apathy.

Therefore voter apathy.

«I think voter apathy is a shame.

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

When voter turnout falls below a certain percentage this can only be explained by voter apathy.

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.

Meanwhile, one of the election observer groups, accredited to monitor the election, Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, has said there may be voter apathy due to the threat being issued by some politicians ahead of the poll.

Authorities struggled against voter apathy, putting many of Russia's nearly 111 million voters under intense pressure to cast ballots.

In addition to increasing voter apathy, as election rules become more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to find and train workers to run the local voting stations.

I wouldn't want to confuse irresponsibility with irresponsibly, especially if I was commenting on voter apathy.

The most worrying long - term trend in politics, more than any other single issue, has been voter apathy in Britain.

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

The biggest issue facing the African American community of faith is voter apathy.

With populist nationalism on the rise, there is fear among citizens that the operational aspects of democracy are being debilitated by elements such as «fake news,» corporate lobbyists and voter apathy, resulting in a fairly intense polarization.

With Election Day a little more than four months away, the first lady decried what she suggested was voter apathy in the black community.

One common conclusion is that voter apathy and disconnection from politics are to blame.

This voter apathy has been compounded by Goldsmith's attempts to link Khan to Islamic extremists in an attempt to depress his support among Labour voters.

It is very likely, that there are many reason explaining the smaller Democrat turnout (Obama running in 2008, two Democratic terms, voter apathy, etc.).

Also, PDP governorship candidate, Oseloka Obaze, who voted at 1:45 p.m., decried what he called «voter apathy» in Ogbaru and Nnewi North Local Government areas.

The best solution, MacKay argues, to stagnation in government and voter apathy is a non-partisan third major party, calling it «the most direct path to fixing our broken system.»

The REC identified poverty, voter apathy and illiteracy, greed and thirst for power at all costs, corruption as factors that hinder free, fair and credible elections.