More Election Stuff ....

Ok, apparently in my last post I made it sound like less then half of all eligible voters voted in the last federal elections but the rate was just over %58, which is still the lowest on record and apparently has been declining since peaking in the 80's.

What could account for this? Fragmentation via too many federal candidates to vote for? Shifts in demographics such as age and ethnicity?

Well, I did hear one younger female on CBC Newsworld indicate she doesn't follow nor understand politics. I thought two things: One, you can't not not know something about politics. And two, it seems that many of our elected officials don't know politics that well either.

Apathy and 'I don't have time' seem to rule the non-voting roost. Maybe we need to make voting mandatory, but if we are going to police voting then we need to make it as easy as possible as we say in PR, set up a secure website were people can vote online 24-7. How about something in the form of a computer kiosk touch screen setup in malls that people can vote at?

The last municipal election, My wife and waited in line for a ridiculous amount of time. So, take a lesson politicians, advanced polls are fine, but enough information can be fed into a computer with the right precautions to allow people to vote from home if they so wish.