| In recent times, the voter turnout in elections has hovered around 50 percent, with young voters in particular staying away in droves. |
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| So why is the voter turnout so low during the election that directly affects us all? |
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| There is also a very inspired black voter turnout, which in fact is the swing vote. |
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| I don't know if it was for lack of interest or lack of confidence in the current system, but the youth voter turnout was only marginally higher. |
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| These internal fissions, he surmised, explained the low voter turnout in traditionally Republican areas of the state. |
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| The Party's high command is now bordering on obsession in its concern over how to avoid a low voter turnout. |
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| In reality, they do the bidding of party wheel horses in floating attack ads and underwriting voter turnout drives. |
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| The thinking behind the move was that it would electrify voters with a charge of democratic zeal, and translate into 60 per cent voter turnout. |
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| Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout. |
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| How are you going to get big voter turnout when everybody seems to think these elections are a big yawn? |
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| Her analysis demonstrates how off-cycle elections reduce voter turnout and amplify the power of organized interest groups. |
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| A key factor in the result was the large voter turnout, which ranged from 76 to 85 percent across the main electorates. |
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| She said the voter turnout in the coming elections would be between 50 per cent and 60 per cent at the most. |
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| Key focus areas are voter turnout and participation, group voting behavior, the expansion of suffrage, and political realignment and dealignment. |
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| In 1922, voter turnout in Australia went down to fifty-eight percent. |
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| However, in our opinion, this is a minor measure that will not correct the strong downward trend in voter turnout. |
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| It seems to me to be a bit simplistic to expect that adding advance polling days will reverse the strong downward trend in voter turnout. |
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| The survey found that Mr. Franks could benefit greatly from a low voter turnout. |
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| The difficulty is that it is presented by the government House leader as some kind of comprehensive answer to voter apathy, low voter turnout. |
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| This contributed to the total of 451,000 registered voters and the 98.6 per cent voter turnout that was far beyond expectation. |
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| Table 6 also reveals that a strong sense of belonging to an ethnic or cultural group has little effect on lowering reported voter turnout rates. |
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| However, some problems did arise, including low voter turnout, which, in Baghdad, reached barely 40 per cent. |
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| Reduced voter turnout and a decrease in trust are both symptoms of an electoral system in trouble. |
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| Closing the voter registration gap and making polling places accessible are just the start to increasing the voter turnout of people with disabilities. |
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| The atmosphere on election day was generally calm and peaceful, with a high voter turnout. |
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| The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout. |
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| Anyone bemoaning the low voter turnout rates and general disinterest in civic duty among Canada's youth should talk to Khaled Sabawi. |
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| He believed that the problem of low voter turnout among youth had not necessarily been resolved. |
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| We are once again heading for an election in which voter turnout is predicted to be very low. |
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| A boisterous election might generate a strong voter turnout, which would help Iran rebut American taunts that it is totalitarian. |
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| Instead, those elections will probably now be determined by low voter turnout and disaffection with local and national authorities. |
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| Unless we check declining voter turnout, we run the risk of having an increasing number of Canadians becoming disengaged from their government. |
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| One might have expected this to translate into much higher voter turnout, since the number of people who voted at advance polls nearly doubled. |
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| Lapp maintains that the level of interest in politics may be an important consideration in explaining rates of voter turnout. |
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| Some of the assistance might come from a passel of supposedly independent satellite fundraising and voter turnout groups busily moving into the state. |
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| This is an effective means of ensuring an increase in voter turnout and strengthening democracy in Canada. |
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| Weather conditions might also impact negatively on voter turnout. |
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| It is extremely difficult to get a high voter turnout depending on where the polling station is located. |
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| This is one of the highest support levels and voter turnout for any land claims agreement. |
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| Differing methods of measuring voter turnout can contribute to reported differences between nations. |
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| The most important socioeconomic factor affecting voter turnout is education. |
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| On the contrary, we work to encourage the participation of the members of these groups in the democratic process because we understand that high voter turnout is a vital sign of a healthy democracy. |
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| It has also been noted that, despite the proliferation of new media as a source of information, political knowledge and voter turnout have not noticeably improved since their introduction. |
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| However, because voter turnout in these types of elections often is quite low, voting in referenda and initiatives may be more easily influenced by political parties and interest groups than voting in officeholder elections. |
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| The Supreme Court reversed 11 SEC decisions, contending that it did not find irregularities, even in cases where voter turnout dubiously exceeded 95 percent. |
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| They smilingly and noddingly agree about the dangerous complacency and lassitude creeping into US political culture: cynicism, defeatism, low voter turnout. |
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| Most analysts of electoral behaviour concur that voter turnout is determined by a combination of what are called facilitative and motivational factors. |
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| In particular, work by Dr Fowler implicates another dopamine receptor, DRD2, and also 5HTT, which regulates serotonin levels, in influencing voter turnout. |
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| The high voter turnout for the poll, which was freely and fairly conducted, shows the political maturity of the Salvadoran people and confirms its commitment to peace and democracy. |
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| Do you really believe the voter turnout will increase when you continue merely to state how marvellously current policy is working and that we must therefore simply continue to pursue the existing concepts? |
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| By our estimation, the gap in voter turnout between a 20-year-old and a 50-year-old immigrant Canadian is nearly 40 percentage points when all other factors are held constant. |
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| My colleague presented a very nice picture of Hochelaga, and I would like to hear his thoughts on voter turnout, because this is what is most important. |
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| As a result, there have been many efforts to increase voter turnout and encourage participation in the political process. |
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| Experimental political science has found that even when P is likely greater than zero, this term has no effect on voter turnout. |
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| In addition to the twin study method, scholars have used gene association studies to analyze voter turnout. |
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| The elimination of registration as a separate bureaucratic step can result in higher voter turnout. |
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| States that have same day registration, or no registration requirements, have a higher voter turnout than the national average. |
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| One of the strongest factors affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory. |
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| However, these tend to be complex electoral systems, and in some cases complexity appears to suppress voter turnout. |
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| The dual system in Germany, though, seems to have had no negative impact on voter turnout. |
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| Therefore, the need for time off from work as a factor in voter turnout is greatly reduced. |
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| Many countries have looked into Internet voting as a possible solution for low voter turnout. |
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| If there are many elections in close succession, voter turnout will decrease as the public tires of participating. |
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| Certainly voter turnout suggests a lack of care. |
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| Over the last 40 years, voter turnout has been steadily declining in the established democracies. |
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| Globally, voter turnout has decreased by about five percentage points over the last four decades. |
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| During the same period, negative campaigning has become ubiquitous in the United States and elsewhere and has been shown to impact voter turnout. |
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| Belgium has compulsory voting and thus maintains one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world. |
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| Compared to countries with plurality electoral systems, voter turnout improves and the population is more involved in the political process. |
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| This aggressive marketing approach is very likely one of the keystones to the success of Internet voting in Markham, and the notable increases in voter turnout. |
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| This bill is intended to increase voter turnout. |
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| In a few short years we have managed to consolidate systems in which political debate is broad, options are real, the process is peaceful, voter turnout massive, the count clean, and the results respected. |
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| This phenomenon encourages low voter turnout. |
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| It is true that voter turnout was too low in many cities. |
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| To fully understand the desire for change voiced in our country during the last election, the high voter turnout must be taken into consideration. |
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| Different countries have very different voter turnout rates. |
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| Once these errors were corrected, there was no longer any statistically significant association between common variants of these two genes and voter turnout. |
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| High voter turnout is often considered to be desirable, though among political scientists and economists specializing in public choice, the issue is still debated. |
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| In the 2001 General Election, the Labour Party won a second successive victory, though voter turnout dropped to the lowest level for more than 80 years. |
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| The firm says inappropriate text messages to Democratic and undecided voters were used in the eleventh hour to intentionally confuse and suppress voter turnout. |
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| The Coalition's Tate hopes to distribute 20 million during the 1998 election season, and he views the scorecards as a key to evangelical voter turnout. |
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| In southern Afghanistan where the Taliban held the most power, voter turnout was low and sporadic violence was directed at voters and security personnel. |
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| Political scientists are divided on whether proportional representation increases voter turnout, though in countries with proportional representation voter turnout is higher. |
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| Rules and laws are also generally easier to change than attitudes, so much of the work done on how to improve voter turnout looks at these factors. |
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