an overwhelming show of apathy
What if you held an election, and no one (literally - not one person) cared?
The City of Tamarac (near Fort Lauderdale) wants to annex the adjoining neighborhood of Prospect Bend. The question of annexation was on Tuesday’s ballot for Prospect Benders, and not a single one of them showed up to vote. Check out these tidbits from the article:
on Election Day, poll workers sat in a nearby polling site… for 12 hours — to no avail.
“I’m just shocked that there was an election held and no one showed,” said state Rep. Jack Seiler, D- Wilton Manors…
… registered voter, 23-year-old Juan Vidal: “It doesn’t make any difference to me either way.”
And now some folks want Floridians to vote twice for the same thing?
Good luck with that.
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March 14th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
The question in my mind is what Tamarac’s motivation is for the annexation (probably property tax $$?).
You may have noticed in the article from the Sun-Sentinel that you linked to, “The fact no one showed may have been partly because most, if not all, of the area’s residents rent apartments”, which leaves me wondering if the apartment complex owner(s) were disqualified from voting b/c they don’t live in that community.
Smells like a boondoggle to me.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
no one told me there was an election
March 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Ah well, your Florida tax dollars at work.
Voter apathy is nothing new and is bound to get worse, as people are increasingly feeling unrepresented.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
They’re not unrepresented, it’s all just proportional to the amount of effort the citizenry are putting into the system. Non-participation is no way to foster change for the better.