Posts Tagged ‘voter turnout’

• B.C. mountain resort has mayor but no voters in area home to grizzlies and goats

  INVERMERE, B.C. – British Columbia’s newest mountain resort municipality now has a mayor and…

  by The Canadian Press - Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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  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?

  by Colby Cosh - Wednesday, February 22, 2012

• 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…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, November 28, 2011

• Our gerontocracy

  Frank Graves considers the ramifications of declining voter turnout.
  Have we passed the brink…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, October 25, 2011

• The patient is unresponsive

  Jane Hilderman argues that people won’t vote if they don’t think the system is…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, October 14, 2011

• How low can we go?

  Kate Chappell relates a tale from the polling station.
  Civic education from an early…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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  Ontarians: voting with their butts for Nobody

  Get ready for the Voter Turnout Nerds: you’ll be hearing from them today

  by Colby Cosh - Friday, October 7, 2011

• The popular mandate

  I ran these sorts of numbers a few years ago, so, for the sake…

  by Erica Alini - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

• Two recounts

  There will be two automatic recounts—in Etobicoke Centre where the Conservative candidate beat a…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, May 3, 2011

• One unquestionably good thing

  Voter turnout was up, if only slightly—from 59% to 61%….

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, May 3, 2011

• The student vote

  Sarah Millar asks an important question: will vote mobs mean actual votes?
  Small said…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, April 18, 2011

• The social disconnect

  Tasha Kheiriddin considers apathy.
  According to Ilona Dougherty, executive director and co-founder of Apathy…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, January 25, 2011

• The voting age: should it be raised to 50?

  Makes about as much sense as lowering it to 16

  by Colby Cosh - Thursday, December 16, 2010

• United in apathy and distraction

  WHERRY: Voter turnout philosophies and realities in Canada

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, August 16, 2010

• Get out the vote

  Eric at 308 takes a shot at adjusting polls for voter turnout trends.
  First,…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, July 16, 2010

• Profiles in Citizenship

  Turnout in yesterday’s parliamentary election in Iraq reached 62.4 per cent despite a concerted…

  by Andrew Potter - Monday, March 8, 2010

• More on fixing the voters: the B.C. evidence

  The BC Stats 2009 Elections BC Post-Election Voter/Non-Voter Satisfaction Survey adds some heft, I…

  by John Geddes - Friday, September 25, 2009

• To the extreme

  Brian Topp, in conversation with Douglas Bell, considers what declining voter turnout means for…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, September 18, 2009

• Governing with consent (II)

  As he notes in the comments, Mike of the Don Street Blog, looked at…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, August 31, 2009

• Governing with consent

  Last week, Mark Donald heralded a “tide of ennui.” This week, Andrew Coyne writes,…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, August 28, 2009

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