On 7/13/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I
wouldn't blame either the WMF or the election committee for this. We
aren't running a kindergarten. If eligible voters can't be bothered to
look when an election is advertised in all reasonable places, they get
the result they deserve.
That presumes that people know when the election is going to happen in
the first place. This election was not advertised in all reasonable
places; it was not mentioned in the anonnotice, for example.
Democratic institutions are not about the
responsibilities of the ruling
structure, but about the responsibilities of the citizenry. Do
countries which make voting obligatory get any better results?
We get very good turnouts here in Australia. It's much rarer for a
leader to be elected on 25% of the possible vote than it is in a
voluntary system.
--
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com