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To: Tradelite who wrote (44275)	11/7/2005 9:41:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Your anecdotal sense of voter participation is in error. Can't you guys vote absentee? That's what I do. ksg.harvard.edu "In fact, turnouts on Election Day have been steadily falling since the 1960s. And it's not just the smaller city council or town selectman races feeling the snub. Even highly publicized, big-money presidential elections are failing to pull in voters. In 1996, the presidential primaries netted only 16 percent of eligible voters and less than 50 percent on election day — one of the lowest turnouts ever recorded. In all of the 20th century, only the 1920 and 1924 presidential elections drew a smaller crowd. Voting, although some would argue one of the most important rights a citizen can exercise in a democratic society, has become, it seems, not worth bothering with."