{"id":189,"date":"2003-09-16T07:25:06","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/09\/why_people_dont_vote\/"},"modified":"2003-09-16T07:25:06","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T11:25:06","slug":"why_people_dont_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/16\/why_people_dont_vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Why People Don’t Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Why<\/a><\/div>\n

Dave does it again<\/a>… This time breaking down the reasons people give for not voting, complete with Tipping Points<\/a><\/em>. (And he gives a great comparison to the reasons that people give for not exercising.) I used to be guilty of using reasons 1 through 6 as rationalization not to vote. Thankfully I overcame that about eight years ago. One point that Dave didn’t mention is the inconvenience of getting to the polls. I think if people could vote online and\/or over the phone that we’d see a significant rise in participation rates. Which is probably why we still can’t vote via those methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave does it again… This time breaking down the reasons people give for not voting, complete with Tipping Points. (And he gives a great comparison to the reasons that people give for not exercising.) I used to be guilty of using reasons 1 through 6 as rationalization not to vote. Thankfully I overcame that about… Continue reading Why People Don’t Vote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/26\/i_guess_i_should_vote_for_kerry\/","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":0},"title":"I Guess I Should Vote for Kerry","date":"February 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just took the quiz over at President Match and it turns out that I'm a 100% match with John Kerry. 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