- From: Nottingham, Mark <mnotting@akamai.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:13:30 -0500
- To: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- CC: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
Nope - that's mandatory voting; if you don't, it's a $50 fine. Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Jun 2014, at 10:46 pm, "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org> wrote: > > >> On 6/7/2014 4:11 PM, Nottingham, Mark wrote: >> ... And in Australia, it's usually around 80%. > > Ah, the benefits of STV ;) > >> >> Just for the record. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On 7 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 06/06/2014 22:31, Jeff Jaffe wrote: >>>> >>>> According to fairvote [1], typical turnout for Congressional elections >>>> in the US midterm is about 40%. I don't have comprehensive data on >>>> local elections, but when I searched for some article about that, I >>>> learned that 25% is quite typical for municipal elections [2]. >>> In the US, maybe. Not here on the Old Continent. Turnout for municipal >>> elections is rarely below 60% in continental Europe... That's just for >>> the record and does not want to have any influence on our current >>> discussion. >>> >>> </Daniel> >
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