Letter: Low voter turnout: No presidential candidate on the ballot that represented liberty
"I Voted" stickers on Utah's primary day at the Anderson-Foothill Library branch.
Tom Smart, Deseret News
In Bob Bennett's Nov. 19 article, "Why the low voter turnout in 2012?" he refers to a Harvard publication that states two trends behind diminishing participation in American politics.
I would like to suggest another reason which I believe is greater than the two cited: Namely, there was no presidential candidate on the ballot that represented liberty, the Constitution, and the proper role of government.
People are fed up with statism. They no longer want to vote for the lesser of two evils. They say, "If I cannot vote for liberty then why vote?"
Gerald Nebeker
Layton
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Gerald is theorizing, but it's no theory that one party did all it could in all the states it could to lower voter turnout. You make people stand in line for four or five hours or more at the polls, THEN produce an ID of some kind, and More..
Exactly right, Gerald. That's precisely why I passed up on voting this year. P. J. O'Rourke also said it right with the title of his recent book Don't Vote: It Just Encourages [them].
Defenders of voting support what is More..
First of all, I would suggest that being bombarded by political ads every time you turn on your TV set has to be something of a factor when it comes to low voter turnout. I can't tell you how many people I know who got so sick of the entire More..