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...trademarks and weighs against individuals; others fear that ICANN could take steps to reduce the freedom of individuals to protect their privacy or to enforce a company-friendly vision of copyright law, and it would be much easier for special interests to capture a private body than a voter-approved one. Unfortunately, ICANN's undemocratic structure is unlikely to change after the first semi-public elections for board members...
Dukakis attributed low voter turn-out in recent elections to the two parties' abandonment of grassroots organizations...
...forum, entitled, "Restoring Real Democracy: Elections, Voter Turnout, and the Decline in Civic Engagement Organizations," focused on why citizens, especially lower-class voters, were staying away from the polls. Over 100 people attended the forum, which took place at the Wiener Auditorium...
Forum Chair Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman chair in economics and the faculty co-chair of the Harvard Trade Union Program, said U.S. voter turnout is lower than any other democracy. Freeman said voter turnout decreased among eligible voters of all levels of education in the years between...
Robert B. Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the first Clinton administration and is now professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University, blamed low voter activity on politicians' failure to address the issues of America's less-educated, lower-class voters...