From Metro:Turnout in Tuesday’s General Election for New York City mayor may have set a record low of only 22.26 percent of registered voters, according to preliminary figures from the Board of Elections.
Just over a million of 4.3 million registered voters in the city cast their ballot in the mayor’s race, not including absentee, emergency and affidavit ballots.
Since 1950, the highest turnout for a mayoral election was in 1953, when 93 precent of registered voters or 2.2 million participated, according to Board of Elections records.
The previous low in a city mayoral election was four years ago, when some 29 percent of registered voters cast their ballot.
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We need to teach civics and citizenship responsibilities in school.
We need to make public the importance of cleaning up the way we are governed.
We need to demand that the media cover politics more in a fair and balanced fashion.
Social media will eventually carry the day, along with a gradual erosion of living standards which will eventually cross some line some day.
But rather than letting things take their course over a number of decades we can speed the process along.
Congratulations Mayor Fugazio.
Apathy is high to begin with, that is why we have bullshit elected leaders and why communities look the way they do.
But I am sure the majority of people know allthe names of the Kardashians and all the housewives of every city.
Every other animal species progresses forward and upward, except humans, we have been heading backwards for some time.
No Second Term! No Second Term! No Second Term!
I got to my polling site, waited for the staff to write down numbers, chat with each other, find mistakes from earlier in the day, chat with their neighbors, find more mistakes from earlier. I gave up and left.
The many mayoral debates on TV featured only DeBlasio and Lhota. But at the voting site, there were many others on the ballot that neither the newspapers nor TV covered, or invited to the debates. This is democracy?
Yeah, but when your ballot wasn't secret and you could sell your vote, was the only time they had near perfect turnout.
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