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From: sanand@radha.UUCP (Sanand Patel)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$, Really Democracy
Message-ID: <135@radha.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 15:31:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 15:31:36 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 03:37:51 EST
References: <210@fornax.uucp>
Reply-To: sanand@radha.UUCP (Sanand Patel)
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In article <210@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp writes:
>First of all is the responsibility to vote.  I would argue that there
>is something seriously wrong in a society where so many people do not
>avail themselves of the ability to have some say in their country's
>actions.  The voter turnout statistics are quite depressing.  During
>

As an aside, in a (free) country where there is low voter turnout, I
would infer that most are *happy* as things are. As voter turnout
increases, I would infer that the (any) country is in trouble/turmoil.
Countries that are in turbulent times/troubled times have a *very* high
turnout >90%. [see also Megatrands by ?? for stats only].
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