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In the decades since California introduced statewide “ballot initiatives” – which can be proposed by any voter and require a simple majority to pass – the state became practically ungovernable.
Turnout is declining in many countries; in the case of elections to the European Parliament, the level of voter participation is so risibly low as to call into question the legitimacy of the result.
Add to that a functioning welfare system, and it is clear why the inequality-focused outrage that has fueled voter revolts elsewhere is gaining little traction in Germany.
In election after election, voter turnout has hit historic lows.
Such an individual’s identity is not derived from class interests or other sociological characteristics, but from the logic of the market, which dictates maximization of self-interest, whether as a producer, a consumer, or a voter.
The opposition Republican People’s Party has not won an election in four decades, owing largely to its failure to extend its voter base beyond its secular core.
Since Copenhagen, climate change has slipped down the global agenda, as the restoration of economic growth, voter concern about jobs and living standards, and violent conflict in key trouble spots have taken precedence.
If someone wants to make progress in politics, he must pay attention to the general condition of the human mind; he must respect the so-called ordinary voter's point of view.
The EU budget should become a main theme in European Parliament election campaigns, increasing voter interest and thus turnout.
Sometimes the reports favored a candidate, but often they were designed simply to give an impression of chaos and disgust with democracy, and to suppress voter turnout.
But, from the point of view of a post-Soviet voter living in the countryside, the webcam sent a different message: the government knows how you vote.
The rise of Donald Trump – anti-trade, anti-migration, anti-Muslim, and nativist – is a reflection of an uncomfortable fact for the Republican establishment: the party’s median voter is closer to those who have lost from globalization.
Lacking any evidence for his allegation, Trump has called for an investigation, much like he demanded an investigation into widespread voter fraud (in favor of his opponent, Hillary Clinton) that never actually took place.
According to the US Census Bureau, fewer than half of eligible adults with family incomes of less than $20,000 per year voted in the 2012 presidential election, whereas voter participation among households with incomes of more than $75,000 was 77%.
The proposed solutions typically focus on digital technology, which many claim would boost voter participation, by lowering the costs of voting.
For example, mobile apps have been touted as a means to boost voter turnout: people could vote at their convenience, whether in the break-room at work or from the comfort of their own home.
Yet the actual impact of such technology on voter participation remains dubious.
Although the rate of online voting in Estonia increased by nearly 20% between the 2007 and 2011 elections there, overall voter turnout increased by fewer than two percentage points (from 61.9% to 63.5%).
It is not yet clear whether voting technology actually does spur greater voter participation.
Voter reaction against the euro may well force the eurozone to stop lying still and take real action.
Extending an olive branch to Russia will have little or no voter appeal in most EU countries, and Putin’s efforts to retain power de facto if not de jure after Medvedev wins his likely victory next March are certain to make matters worse.
It is also reflected in the risk of substantial voter abstention, unusual for a country that takes presidential elections very seriously.
Though Herzog and Livni – who formed the Zionist Union by merging Herzog’s Labor party and Livni’s Hatnuah party – possess several attractive qualities, they do not match the prototype preferred by today’s average voter.
That is true even if one takes into consideration the record-low voter turnout in the recent legislative elections.
Often, voter lists were incomplete or inaccurate.
Exit polls suggest that ballot totals fairly closely reflect voter choices.
As we have seen in one country after another, a disinformed voter is a democrat’s nemesis.
But in Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska, and other red states, the Republican voter base continues to be easily grifted.
With politicians focused on the median voter, and a groupthink-generating media, the eurozone muddles through, just barely surviving.
Yet the Nordic states have thrived, not suffered, from a large social welfare state, with much less public-sector corruption and far higher levels of voter participation than in the US.
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