Sentences with phrase «voting participation rate»

As the generation with the lowest voting participation rate of any that came before, Newsweek called them «the generation that dropped out without ever turning on the news or tuning in to the social issues around them.»

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

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This high level of participation in political affairs is not typical for a country where the declining voting rate in the national elections stands at 65 % (2009).

I know of no firm metrics (other than voting patterns, which are flawed as participation rates are so low 38 % - 62 % typically for national elections), though there is a plethora of writing on the effectiveness of government.

1) Starting from the assumptions that a high participation rate is a good thing, why don't they increase the number of voting booths in the US to increase the participation rate?

Early voting would also increase participation rates, they say.

Horner said, «New York is really notorious in terms of having difficult obstacles for voters to surmount in order to vote,» and that the rules contribute to New York having one of the «lowest voter participation rates in the country.»

Conducting primaries online could make voting convenient enough to lift the participation rate — and digital voting would make it easier to find information needed to make an informed decision.

You can communicate with other members of the site with the help of on - site e-mail, real - time chat, send virtual flirts, rate and vote for pictures, add members that you like to the hot list, create a list of friends, take participation in discussions on forums and message forums, create blogs and much more.

Only 10 percent of eligible members cast votes, a common participation rate for such elections, said Steve Blazak, a union spokesman.

... Over half the public, including 57 percent of parents, admits not voting in the most recent school board election — a remarkably high rate given the tendency of respondents to overstate their electoral participation (Farkas et al. 2001, 15).

While all parties express earnest concern about the low participation rate of young Canadians, the young NDP MP argued, the new measures in the Fair Elections Act will make it even harder for her generation to vote.