The voter turnout for Thursday’s election reached a nearly 20-year high. But the highest turnout was decades earlier.
Tag Archives: voter turnout
This election, pick a reason—any reason—and vote
A raised middle finger, a silent thank you, or a helping hand. Whatever your vote represents, you just need to cast it, writes Scott Gilmore
Get to voters while they’re young
Preventing shoddy voter turn out should start as early as elementary school
The partisan problem is spreading
Editorial: Ford Nation lives, as does the political nightmare of caustic partisanship
Let’s lower the voting age to 16
The Twitter generation is engaged and deserves a say
Will no one rid us of these turnout nerds?
Our voter-turnout figures are low by historical standards partly because we lowered the voting age in 1970. Why would lowering it again fix things?
The kids are, you know, fine and stuff, I guess
Elections Canada has released its national survey of young adults. Three-quarters of them claim to be voting and they generally seem okay with the state of things.
Our gerontocracy
Frank Graves considers the ramifications of declining voter turnout.
The patient is unresponsive
Jane Hilderman argues that people won’t vote if they don’t think the system is truly accountable.
How low can we go?
Kate Chappell relates a tale from the polling station.