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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Do you think these more transient PR's are more likely to vote than current citizens? Because if only 46.8% of eligible Calgarians could be bothered to vote in the last election I'm really curious what portion of PR's who give an insufficient amount of #### about this city will turnout...
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That paragraph was in response to suggestions that people who pay taxes and contribute to the economy should be allowed to vote and there was an example given of a 20 year PR who has been very successful here. I’m just saying that many people, citizens or not, don’t fit that profile so it doesn’t seem to justify a change.
As to whether temporary residents would vote in higher percentages, I don’t know. Anecdotally, the people I know who have become citizens are eager to vote. I could see the same being true for people coming from less open (or more open) societies. To me that’s a moot point though. If the problem is an apathetic electorate then we should be addressing the apathy, not just adding keen voters to the rolls to get the numbers up.