Quote of the Day: Tim Hibbits on voting
From KATU's website, Portland's premier pollster is asked his opinion on how to improve voter turnout. Here's part of his answer, which I love:
I see that Arizona is toying with the idea of giving everyone who votes a lottery ticket. What an embarrassment. If we have to induce people to vote by offering them a chance to win money, then I think we are in even deeper trouble than I thought.
posted by Ken @ 10:21 AM
2 Comments:
At 8/17/2006 12:24 PM,
jeff said…
I thought that that was what voting Democrat was - "a chance to win (other peoples) money."
At 8/20/2006 10:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
I recently read a biography of Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards -- America's greatest theologian. While we were still a British colony, self government in each village was vital.
It was noted in this book that low turn out at the town meetings caused several villages to begin fining local families for not attending and participating in the annual election of town officials.
Seems that voter apathy is a part of the human condition rather than a modern problem.
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