Sentences with phrase «worst voter participation»

New York is one of only 13 states that does not offer early voting and because of that and other antiquated laws we have some of the worst voter participation in the nation.»

And he said laws that have resulted in New York's third - worst voter participation in the nation and fifth - worst voter registration numbers need to be changed.

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Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of voter participation, driven by our archaic voter registration and election administration systems.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

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.