Non-voting behaviour and efforts to increase turnout
A high turnout at the polls in general elections is not the be-all-and-end-all of a healthy democracy. Non-voting too is signaling—although the meaning of the signals is often obscure. The meaning of the votes cast can be equally obscure.
Pundits and others routinely bewail the decline in voter turnout in Canada. Voter turnout from 1867 to 1997 was usually above 70 per cent. It fell to 67 per cent in 2000, 61 per cent in 2004, 64 per cent in 2006 and 58.8 per cent in 2008 ( http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/historical-turnout.ht...
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