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...While the U.S. brands Hizballah a terrorist organization, Tuesday's turnout signaled the depth of its roots in the Lebanese mainstream. The Iran-backed Islamist organization, which maintains a militia that would likely be more than a match for the Lebanese national army in the event of a showdown, currently holds more seats than any other single party in Lebanon's parliament. The party is the major voice in the Shiite community, which today may be around 40 percent of Lebanon's population...
...Percolating through America is an overwhelming apathy toward local government. Turnout ranges from bad to worse in local elections across the country. For example, in Los Angeles two thirds of registered voters turn out for Presidential elections, but only half that many turn out for a mayoral election...
...This low turnout can be attributed to a number of factors, but the bottom line is that in the public eye, national politics trumps local politics. Politics in Washington D.C. is glitzier, more exciting and is covered more extensively by the media than politics in any state or city, and there is no reason to think that this will change anytime soon...
Some cities already use a single election day, which results in higher turnout for local elections almost without exception. It’s time for other cities, like the City of Los Angeles, to commit to increasing participation in local politics by holding all elections on a single Election...
...addition to a generally low turnout, female participation from Harvard was below last year’s numbers as well...