This just popped into my head after hearing a news blurb about the voting rate in the last term elections....
We know that even in a busy voting cycle, there is a rather shocking percentage of apathetic voters.
What I wondered was....Would the participation of these folks in a given election make any difference in the results? If these folks, presumably not only apathetic but uninformed or ignorant of candidates and issues....Were to participate (perhaps mandatory?), would it skew the election one way or the other?
Are current non-voters more likely to be right-wing or left-wing? To go for outliers or independents?
We might think that though only about half of eligible voters actually vote, at least they are interested enough to do so and might (hopefully) be at least somewhat informed as to the issues and candidates involved.
Of course.....Listening to interviews with potential voters in previous elections....One has to question that "interested and informed" notion.
We know that even in a busy voting cycle, there is a rather shocking percentage of apathetic voters.
What I wondered was....Would the participation of these folks in a given election make any difference in the results? If these folks, presumably not only apathetic but uninformed or ignorant of candidates and issues....Were to participate (perhaps mandatory?), would it skew the election one way or the other?
Are current non-voters more likely to be right-wing or left-wing? To go for outliers or independents?
We might think that though only about half of eligible voters actually vote, at least they are interested enough to do so and might (hopefully) be at least somewhat informed as to the issues and candidates involved.
Of course.....Listening to interviews with potential voters in previous elections....One has to question that "interested and informed" notion.
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