Comment 26950

By Zip (anonymous) | Posted October 18, 2008 at 12:16:43

The number of people who did not vote reached an all-time high this past election. Fewer than 60% of the electorate voted. I think this is the major tragedy resulting from first-past-the-post.

I wonder if anyone feels as I do, looking back over the past 50 years, that interest in political issues has actually increased as a result of directly accessible, digital media, while voting has declined? I does seem to me that those who are turned off voting are, superficially at least, in a demographic most active in new media, while newspapers and television network coverage is increasingly non-issue, "leadership" or scandal oriented.

Should more representational electoral systems have accompanied our slide into the information age? Would such systems bring more people back into voting, or has a generation, or more, been lost?

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