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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
One where people don't vote for a variety of reasons, do we do something drastic about it or do we just let it roll along, at what point do by elections with 11% turnouts just become to rediculous to stand or government's can't realistically claim to have mandates because no one voted for them, it's not just here, that great bastion of democracy only had a 54% turnout the other day apparently. Besides I've thought of a catchy name for it now, the democracy belief rebate
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Well perhaps a minimum turnout or quorum might be the answer. If it's not achieved the election is null and has to be rerun? But that won't work for those that would see it as a means of trying to get the 'right' result.
At one time I thought education was the key but having had to teach 'citizen' lessons in Social Education classes I soon learned what a turn off politics and the constitution is to the average teenager.
