.jaimewatt: Allowing youths to cast mock ballots could be a counterweight to low turnout and political shenanigans via torontostar
As the Politics Page takes a summer break, I thought I’d end the season with a useful suggestion for a vexing problem., in particular the historically low turnout rate in the Ontario election just finished.
You wouldn’t be able to walk to the polling station with your child without having discussed the election at the dinner table, or in the car when you were driving them to their dance recital. Bureaucratic officials say it will be prohibitively expensive to implement. Simply put, this is nonsense. But after all, these objections come from Elections Canada, who can’t even currently administer accessible voting for communities across the country,. All of which points to the feebleness of the bureaucracy. A feebleness which impedes the ability for creative ideas to solve the important challenges before us — challenges which strike at the very core of our democracy.
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