POLI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Voter Fatigue, Compulsory Voting, Voting Age

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Was very strongly correlated with high socio-economic status (ses) Paradox: education and income are up, but voter turnout declining. High voter turnout means satisfaction with the regime. Educated people are more cynical about politics. A lot of educated people do not vote. Slide 3: canadian turnout (% of registered voters) Slide 4: 2011 turnout turnout in maritime provinces are higher. Nu had the lowest voter turn out. Slide 5: us v. s canadian turnout: voter fatigue? in an average 4 year period, average canadian will get to vote 3-4 times. They will get to pick about a dozen candidates, mainly for local office. Us voter have as many as a dozen election to vote in. Presidential, congressional, state government, and local elections, plus plebiscites. Vote so often you cannot be bothered to vote. Slide 6: why didn"t people vote? (canada 2011) statistics canada study. Bill c-24 (june 2003): . 75 per vote/year. Amendments to elections act will end subsidy by march 2015.

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