By Kerry Auriat This past weekend, two Brandonites, Liz Roberts and Maureen Bonar, participated in the America Speaks National Townhall discussion, held at 85 locations across the U.S. Considering the organization's novel approach to engaging people via "dialogue versus debate," the idea of a national forum merits serious discussion on this side of the border. Low voter turnout numbers in many of our elections reflect a growing disconnect between voters and their elected officials. Politicians often use the minuscule attendance as a rationale for not acting on attendees' concerns or for staying the course.
The 2006 municipal election in Brandon saw 47 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot but the enthusiastic turnout to the advanced polls could mean voter turnout breaks the 50 per cent mark, Ewasiuk said.
Across Kabul, turnout was sluggish. But at Haji [Janat Gul] the lack of voters had not dented the tally of votes. Only an hour after voting began, 6,000 had been cast. Yet not a voter was in sight. Staff insisted that the 6,000 had all come at 7 a.m., when polls opened: "The Taliban said that they would cut off the fingers of people voting so they came early. In a relatively benign northern arc, from Herat in the west to Nangarhar in the east, turnout was as high as 60 per cent in some areas, though in Nangarhar it fell to about 35 per cent, and overall turnout was well below the level achieved in the previous presidential poll in 2004. In parts of the south, however, intimidation and apathy kept turnout extremely low. "The Taliban are patrolling the area. Nobody voted and nobody could...
Voter turnout in the 2003 provincial election was 54 per cent, a number some critics derided as a sorry amount compared with 68 per cent of eligible voters who cast ballots in the 1999 provincial election. It looks like it's going to be going up a bit," said [Mary Skanderbeg], who said official voter turnout numbers are coming next week. "It's looking good. A total of 171,395 voters cast ballots for the city's October elections of a total of 448,096 eligible voters. Traditionally, municipal elections attract more lacklustre voter participation than provincial or federal races.
...Canada's youth electorate, (registered voters aged 18-24 years) appears to be voting less over r...
[Hamid Karzai]'s top challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, widened allegations of fraud against Karzai and his government Sunday, saying ballots marked for the incumbent were coming in from volatile southern districts where no vote was held, and that turnout was being reported as 40 per cent in areas where only 10 per cent of voters cast ballots. Abdullah said a border security commander in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq, used his house as a polling station and stuffed the ballot box for Karzai. Other polling sites were in border police posts that Raziq controls, Abdullah said.
... market, which 70 percent of Greenland voters rejected. However, the positive vote at the Danish...The turnout was unusually high (72 percent), and an overwhelmi...
...To some extent, it worked. Voter turnout was lower than the year before. More than 20 peopl...
Abstract . Voter turnout in Canada has declined in the last several decades...When non-voters were asked why they did not vote, the most frequen...
Municipal elections see lowest turnout of voters . On Oct. 27, Manitobans in every munici...
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