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Originally Posted by Slava
Oh I can see the point here for sure. Like you say in our neck of the woods all of the races were a foregone conclusion, and when the polling hours are 10am-8pm on one day sometimes you just get busy or whatever. It probably makes no difference.
I guess that I just feel like people should be more involved in general. I think that with more involvement you get more ideas of how things should be done and that discussion and debate is what drives things forward (amongst other factors). I do agree that the other 65% who didn't vote probably would've voted in the same proportions as those who did though, so it probably doesn't change the outcome very often if at all.
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Very good point about voter turn out. People often incorrectly assume that election results would be different had more people turned out, but you can look at it the same as polls before an election; the people who did turn out are the ones being sampled. While this sample may not necessarily be representative of the population in general, it does provide a good enough snap shot of the population's will.